The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction
The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction
Fernand Léger
L’Étoile rouge (Les Plongeurs)
Auction Closed
November 9, 12:13 AM GMT
Estimate
1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Fernand Léger
(1881 - 1955)
L’Étoile rouge (Les Plongeurs)
signed F. Léger. and dated 42 (lower right); signed, dated and titled L’Étoilerouge (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
32 by 27 in. 81.3 by 68.6 cm.
Executed in 1942.
Valentine Gallery, New York (probably acquired directly from the artist)
Perls Galleries, New York (acquired by 1962)
Acquired from the above in June 1968 by the present owner
André Verdet, Fernand Léger, Le dynamisme pictural, Geneva, 1955, no. 37, illustrated (titled Les Plongeurs and catalogued with incorrect dimensions)
Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger, catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, 1938-1943, Paris, 1998, no. 1105, pp. 202-203, illustrated in color
Mark Stephen Archer, The New Formal: Interiors by James Aman, New York, 2016, p. 12, illustrated in color (in installation)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Bloomfield Hills, Cranbrook Art Museum and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, European Artists in the United States, November 1945 - June 1946
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Fernand Léger: Five Themes and Variations, February - April 1962, no. 18, pp. 21, 36, illustrated