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Property from an Important Private European Collection

Fernand Léger

Nature morte aux trois papillons

Auction Closed

May 18, 01:03 AM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private European Collection

Fernand Léger

1881 - 1955

Nature morte aux trois papillons



signed F. Léger and dated 52 (lower right); signed again, dated 52 and titled (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

36 ¼ by 25 ⅝ in. 92 by 65 cm.

Executed in 1952.


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重要歐洲私人收藏

費爾南・雷捷

1881 - 1955年

《靜物與三隻蝴蝶》


款識:藝術家簽名F. Léger並紀年52(右下);再次簽名、紀年52並書題目(背面)

油彩畫布

36 ¼ x 25 ⅝ 英寸;92 x 65 公分

1952年作

Estate of the artist
Michel Couturier, Paris
Galerie Bourdon, Paris
Didier Lambert, Paris (acquired circa 1955-60)
Private Collection, France (acquired by descent from the above)
Christie’s New York, 10 May 2000, lot 637 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Irus Hansma and Claude Lefebvre du Preÿ, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, 1952-1953, Paris, 2013, no. 1479, p. 42, illustrated in color

Venice, XXVI Biennale Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia, 1952, no. 94, p. 275 

Bern, Kunsthalle, Fernand Léger, 1952, no. 57