Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Fernand Léger
Le Chapeau vert et le fer à repasser
Auction Closed
November 15, 10:48 PM GMT
Estimate
800,000 - 1,200,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private East Coast Collection
Fernand Léger
1881 - 1955
Le Chapeau vert et le fer à repasser
signed F.Léger and dated 50 (lower right); signed F. Leger., titled and dated 50 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
28¾ by 36¼ in.
73 by 92 cm.
Executed in 1950.
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Marie Cuttoli, Paris
Perls Galleries, New York
Jeffrey Horwitz Ltd., Los Angeles (acquired by 1978)
Kornfeld und Klipstein Berne, 25 June 1982, lot 180
Private Collection, Switzerland
Sotheby’s London, 26 March 1985, lot 56 (consigned by the above)
Waddington Galleries, London
Acquired from the above on 28 May 1986 by the present owner
Marie Cuttoli, Paris
Perls Galleries, New York
Jeffrey Horwitz Ltd., Los Angeles (acquired by 1978)
Kornfeld und Klipstein Berne, 25 June 1982, lot 180
Private Collection, Switzerland
Sotheby’s London, 26 March 1985, lot 56 (consigned by the above)
Waddington Galleries, London
Acquired from the above on 28 May 1986 by the present owner
Christian Zervos, Fernand Léger, Oeuvres de 1905 à 1952, Paris, 1952, p. 87, illustrated (titled Composition au chapeau vert and dated 1951)
Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, 1949-1951, Paris, 1996, no. 1370, p. 91, illustrated in color
Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, 1949-1951, Paris, 1996, no. 1370, p. 91, illustrated in color
Lyon, Musée de Lyon, Fernand Léger, 1955, no. 75 (titled Le chapeau vert)
Houston, Rice University Institute for the Arts, Léger our Contemporary, 1978, no. 39, p. 56, illustrated