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Property from an Important Private Collection, Chicago

Fernand Léger

La Roue de l'échelle

Lot Closed

May 14, 04:10 PM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection, Chicago

Fernand Léger

1881 - 1955

La Roue de l'échelle


Signed F. Léger and dated 47 (lower right)

Oil on canvas

36 ¼ by 23 ⅝ in. (92 by 65.2 cm)

Framed: 50 ⅝ by 37 ⅞ in. (128.7 by 96 cm)

Painted in 1947.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm
Private Collection, Denmark
Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 1956)
Harriet Griffin Fine Arts, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by 1985
David Cooper, Fernand Léger et le nouvel espace, Geneva, 1949, illustrated p. 143
Svend Schultz, Hvor der moderne Kunst star i daag, Copenhagen, 1951, illustrated in color on the cover
Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint 1944-1948, Paris, 2000, no. 1279, illustrated in color p. 193
Gothenburg, Konsthall, Utställning Fransk Konst, 1949, no. 83
Malmö, Malmö Museum, Fransk Konst, 1951, no. 95