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Property of an Important New York Collector

Fernand Léger

Le 14 juillet 1918 à Vernon

Auction Closed

May 16, 12:52 AM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of an Important New York Collector 

 

Fernand Léger

1881 - 1955 

 

Le 14 juillet 1918 à Vernon

signed F.L. (lower right) 

oil on canvas 

9 ½ by 13 in. 

24.1 by 33 cm. 

Executed in 1918.

Galerie de l’Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris (acquired directly from the artist circa 1918)

Galerie Nathan, Zurich (acquired in 1957-58) 

Nachmann Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

Galerie Nathan, Zurich (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, Brazil (acquired from the above on 30 August 1967)

Sotheby’s, London, 3 February 2004, lot 44 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Carl Einstein, Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Berlin, 1926, pp. 94 and 96

Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger, catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, 1903-1919, Paris, 1990, p. 194, no. 105, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and Kunstmuseum Basel, Fernand Léger 1911-1924: The Rhythm of Modern Life, 1994, fig. 7, p. 52, illustrated

Valeriano Bozal, Estudios de arte contemporáneo, vol. I, Madrid, 2008, p. 296