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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 12, 2019 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 37 | $****** - ****** | NATURE MORTE À LA PIPE SUR FOND ORANGE |
paintings
92 x 64.8 cm (36.22 x 25.51 in)
Oil on canvas
Signed F. Léger and dated 28 (lower right); signed F. Leger, inscribed Nature morte definitif and dated 28 (on the reverse)
Paul Rosenberg (acquired from the artist, likely by 1929)
Richard Davis, New York (and sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, April 13, 1944, lot 87)
Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York (acquired at the above sale)
The artist, France (acquired by 1955)
Nadia Léger, France (by descent from the above in 1955)
Musée national Fernand Léger, Biot (acquired from the above by 1964)
Private Collection (acquired by 1971)
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (acquired by 1980)
Wally Findlay Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Switzerland (and sold: Sotheby's, London, December 4, 1984, lot 49)
Acquired at the above sale
Rouen, Musée des Beaux Arts, Les Grandes étapes de l'art moderne, 1954, no. 63
Lyon, Musée de Lyon, Fernand Léger, 1955, no. 40
Paris, Musée des Arts Decoratifs & Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Fernand Léger 1881-1955, 1956, no. 64, illustrated in the catalogue
Paris, Salon de Mai, Hommage à Léger, 1956, no. 64, illustrated in the catalogue
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Fernand Léger, 1881-1955, 1957, no. 51, illustrated in the catalogue
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Fernand Léger, 1957, no. 69
Liège, Musée de l'art wallon, Léger-Matisse-Picasso-Miró-Laurens-Magnelli-Arp-Hartung-Jacobsen, 1958, no. 9
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Fernand Léger, 1964, no. 28
London, Tate Gallery, Léger and Purist Paris, 1970-71, no. 72
Paris, Grand Palais, Fernand Léger, 1971-72, no. 106, illustrated in the catalogue
Fukuoka, Centre Culture; Nagoya, Galerie Meitetsu & Tokyo, Galerie Seibu, Fernand Léger, 1972, no. 24, illustrated in the catalogue
Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Fernand Léger, 1881-1955, 1980-81, no. 56, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Léger, 1881-1981, 1981, no. 23, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Biot, Musée national Fernand Léger, Hommage à Fernand Léger 1881-1955, Exposition du Centenaire, 1981, no. 44, illustrated in the catalogue
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Fernand Leger - Selected Works from a Private Collection, 1994, illustrated in color in the catalogue
"Fernand Léger" in Sélection, cahier no. 5, Antwerp, 1929, illustrated p. 56
Paul Firens, "Fernand Léger" in La Renaissance, Paris, 1929, illustrated in an early state p. 387
Christian Zervos, "Fernand Léger et le développement des objets dans l'espace" in Cahiers d'Art, no. 4, Paris, 1929, illustrated p. 158
Christian Zervos, "Fernand Léger, Exposition au Kunsthaus de Zurich" in Cahiers d'Art, special issue, no. 3-4, Paris, 1933, illustrated n.p.
Maurice Jardot, Fernand Léger, Paris, 1956, illustrated in color
Atsushi Miyagawa, "Braque-Leger" in L'Art du Monde, vol. 18, Tokyo, 1968, illustrated in color
André Verdet, Fernand Léger: I mestri del Novecento, Florence, 1969, illustrated p. 27
"Fernand Léger" in Europe, Paris, 1971, illustrated in color
Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger, vivre dans le vrai, Paris, 1987, illustrated in color p. 130
Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné 1925-1928, Paris, 1995, no. 553, illustrated in color p. 277
Signed F. Léger and dated 28 (lower right); signed F. Leger, inscribed Nature morte definitif and dated 28 (on the reverse)
Oil on canvas
36 1/4 by 25 1/2 in.
92 by 64.8 cm
Painted in 1928.
