Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Fernand Léger
Un Oiseau et deux papillons (La Journée d'été)
Auction Closed
May 16, 12:52 AM GMT
Estimate
800,000 - 1,200,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Esteemed European Collection
Fernand Léger
1881 - 1955
Un Oiseau et deux papillons (La Journée d'été)
signed F. LÉGER and dated 48 (lower right); signed F. Léger, titled, and dated 48 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
25 ⅜ by 36 ¼ in.
65.2 by 92.3 cm.
Executed in 1948.
Galerie Louis Carré, Paris
Dr. Walter Hadron, Bern (acquired by 1948)
Christie’s, London, 12 December 1969, lot 88 (consigned by the above)
Hans Ravenborg, Hamburg (acquired at the above sale)
Christie’s, London, 10 December 1998, lot 509 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Georges Bauquier; Irus Hansma; Claude Lefebvre du Preÿ and Nelly Maillard, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1944-1948, vol. VII, Paris, 2000, no. 1300, p. 220, illustrated in color
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, F. Léger 1912-1948, 1948, no. 17
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1948
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Peinture française actuelle, 1950, no. 73
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