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Property from a Private Collection, New York

Fernand Léger

Portrait de Paul Éluard

Auction Closed

November 17, 10:26 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, New York

Fernand Léger

1881 - 1955

Portrait de Paul Éluard


signed twice F. Leger, dated 47 and inscribed A Alice amigo (lower right); signed F. Leger, titled and dated 47 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

25⅝ by 19⅞ in.

65.1 by 50.5 cm.

Executed in 1947. 

Alice Ahrweiler, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)

Galerie 65, Cannes

Palais Galliera Paris, 12 June 1964, lot 84

Acquired from the above by the wife of the present owner

Frank Elgar, Léger. Peintures, 1911-1948, Paris, 1948, pl. XII, illustrated 

Jean-Luc Guillevic, “Sur des Figures de Fernand Léger,” Cahiers d’Art, Paris, 1949, fig. IV, p. 84, illustrated 

Frank Elgar, “Picasso Léger, deux hommes, deux mondes,” Les Amis de l’Art, Paris, 1954, pl. 16, illustrated

"Hommage à Fernand Léger," Les Lettres Françaises, Paris, 1955, no. 582, p. 12, illustrated 

Pierre Descargues, Fernand Léger, Prague, 1960, no. 46

Eva Petrová, Fernand Léger, Prague, 1966, p. 129, illustrated 

Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, 1944-1948, Paris, 2000, no. 1251, p. 159, illustrated

Paris, Musée nationale d’art moderne, Fernande Léger, Exposition retrospective 1905-1949, 1949, no. 82

London, Tate Gallery, Fernand Léger, 1950, no. 41

Paris, Musée Galliera, Regards sur la peinture contemporaine, 1955, n.n. 

Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs & Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Fernand Léger, 1956, no. 123, p. 317, illustrated 

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, & Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Léger Wegbereider, 1956-57, no. 63

Munich, Haus der Kunst, Fernande Léger 1881-1955, 1957, no. 107