The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Day Auction

The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Day Auction

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The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Fernand Léger

Personnages au camion de Garme (Le Garage)

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November 9, 06:24 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

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The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Fernand Léger

1881 - 1955


Personnages au camion de Garme (Le Garage)

brush and ink on paper

image: 17½ by 22¼ in. 45 by 56 cm.

sheet: 19¾ by 25½ in. 50 by 65 cm.

Executed in 1955.

Nadia Léger, Paris (acquired from the estate of the artist)
Alex Maguy (Galerie de l'Elysée), Paris
The Pace Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in November 1968)
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Avnet, New York (acquired from the above in November 1968)
The Pace Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in August 1970 by the present owner 
Jean Cassou and Jean Leymarie, Fernand Léger, Drawings and Gouaches, New York, 1973, no. 278, p. 186, illustrated (titled Figures with Truck)
"All About Art—Emily Fisher Landau Chooses Her Palette in New York," Architectural Digest, October 2002, p. 242, illustrated in color
Paris, Galerie Louise Leiris, F. Léger Dessins et gouaches 1909-1955, 1958, no. 88, illustrated 
Zagreb, Galerije Grada, Fernand Léger, 1963, n.n.
Tel Aviv Museum, Fernand Léger, 1967, no. 62
New York, The Pace Gallery, Léger: The Late Works at Pace, February - March 1972, no. 20
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery and Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Fernand Léger: The Later Years, 1987-88, no. 121, fig. 112, n.p., illustrated