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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 14, 2017 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 23 | $****** - ****** | ÉLÉMENT MÉCANIQUE SUR FOND JAUNE (CONSTRUCTION MÉTALLIQUE) | |||
May 12, 1993 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture - Part I | 41 | Estimates not disclosed | Element mecanique sur fond jaune |
paintings
91.7 x 73.3 cm (36.1 x 28.86 in)
Oil on canvas
Signed F. LEGER and dated 50 (lower right), titled ÉLEMENT MECANIQUE SUR FOND JAUNE, signed F. LEGER. and dated 50 (on the reverse)
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
The Menil Foundation, Houston (acquired in 1960 and sold: Christie’s, New York, May 12, 1993, lot 41)
Raymond Nasher, Dallas (acquired at the above sale)
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Bern, Kunsthalle, Fernand Léger, 1952, no. 90
London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Fernand Léger, paintings, drawings, lithographs, ceramics, 1954-55, no. 34
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 6th Exhibition of Paintings by Léger, selected from the years 1918-1954, 1960-61, no. 15, illustrated in the catalogue
Houston, University of Saint Thomas; Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts; Providence, Museum of Art; Providence, Rhode Island School of Design; Waltham, Massachusetts, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Institute of Art & Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, Look Back. An Exhibition of Cubist Paintings and Sculpture from the Menil Family Collection, 1968-69, no. 32, illustrated in the catalogue
Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Chambéry, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Toulouse, Musée des Augustins; Nantes, Musée des Beaux Arts & Lille, Palais des Beaux Arts, Collection de Menil: Oeuvres Cubistes, 1970, no. 32, illustrated in the catalogue
Houston, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Léger Our Contemporary, 1978, no. 40, illustrated in the catalogue
Houston, Rice University, Fondren Art Library, 1987 (on loan)
Art International, Review, June, 1961, illustrated p. 23
Hommage à Fernand Léger, XXe siècle, Paris, 1971, illustrated p. 94
Gilbert Lascault, Léger, L'anti-récit, XXe siècle, Paris, 1975, no. 45, illustrated p. 54
Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, 1949-1951, Paris, 2003, vol. VIII, no. 1403, illustrated in color p. 149
Signed F. LEGER and dated 50 (lower right); titled ÉLEMENT MECANIQUE SUR FOND JAUNE, signed F. LEGER. and dated 50 (on the reverse)
Oil on canvas
36 1/8 by 28 7/8 in.
91.7 by 73.3 cm
Painted in 1950.
