Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Property of a Distinguished American Collector
Fernand Léger
Le Blessé
Auction Closed
May 17, 12:56 AM GMT
Estimate
4,000,000 - 6,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Distinguished American Collector
Fernand Léger
1881 - 1955
Le Blessé
signed F.LEGER (lower right)
oil on canvas
24 ¼ by 18 ⅜ in. 61.6 by 47 cm.
Executed in 1917.
Meric Callery, New York and Paris
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1944)
Private Collection, Texas (acquired from the above in 1958)
Christie’s, New York, 11 November 1997, lot 150 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Douglas Cooper, Fernand Léger et le nouvel espace, Geneva, 1949, p. 190; p. 70, illustrated
Peter de Francia, Fernand Léger, New Haven and London, 1983, p. 39
Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger, catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, 1903-1919, Paris, 1990, no. 101, p. 186; p. 187, illustrated
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Ivory Black in Modern Painting, 1944, no. 8 (dated 1920)
Houston, Rice Museum, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Léger, Our Contemporary, 1978, no. 6, p. 22, illustrated (dated 1918)
Portland Museum of Art, Pursuing a Passion, 1999
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Facets of Cubism, 2005-06
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Romance of Modernism, 2006-07, n.n., p 79, illustrated in color
Cambridge, Fogg Museum, Harvard University, 2015-16 (on loan)