Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Property of an Important New York Collector
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
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