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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 1, 2022 | Christie's | London | 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale | 44 | $****** - ****** | Composition |
paintings
65.1 x 54 cm (25.63 x 21.25 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated ' F LEGER 20 ' (lower right); signed again, dated and inscribed ' F. LEGER 20 Composition' (on the reverse)
Galerie Simon [Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler], Paris.
Dr Fritz Nathan & Dr Peter Nathan, Zurich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1960.
(Probably) Zurich, Kunsthaus, Fernand Lé ger , April - May 1933, n.p. (illustrated; dated ‘1919').
Mechelen, Cultureel Centrum Burgemeester Antoon Spinoy, Fernand Lé ger , October - December 1979, no. 9, p. 53 (with inverted dimensions).
Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, Experiment Sammlung II , Fünf Sammlungen fü r das Museum , June - August 1984, p. 44.
Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, Das gloriose Jahrzehnt , Franzö sische Kunst 1910-1920 aus Winterthurer Besitz , January - April 1991, p. 157 (illustrated p. 156).
Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum, Fernand Lé ger 1911-1924 , Le rythme de la vie moderne , May - August 1994, no. 56, p. 245 (illustrated p. 127); this exhibition later travelled to Basel, Kunstmuseum, September - November 1994.
Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, Blü hendes , Ein Blick auf die Sammlung , August - November 2007.
Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Gipfeltreffen der Moderne: Das Kunstmuseum Winterthur , April - August 2009, no. 97, p. 122 (illustrated p. 132); this exhibition later travelled to Rovereto, MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, September 2009 - January 2010; and Salzburg, Museum der Moderne, Ferbruary - May 2010.
Tochigi, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Masterpieces from the Collection of the Kunstmuseum Winterthur , June - July 2010, no. 7-6, pp. 110 & 165 (illustrated p. 111); this exhibition later travelled to Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum, August - October 2010; Kobe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, October - December 2010; and Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, January - March 2011.
Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, on long term loan, 1960 - 2021.
C. Zervos, ed., 'Fernand Léger au Kunsthaus de Zurich', in Cahiers d'Art , vol. 8, nos. 3-4, Paris, 1933, n.p. (illustrated; dated ‘1919').
G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné, 1920-1924 , Paris, 1992, no. 238, p. 80 (illustrated p. 81).
FERNAND LÉGER (1881-1955)
Composition
signed and dated ' F LEGER 20 ' (lower right); signed again, dated and inscribed ' F. LEGER 20 Composition' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
25 5⁄8 x 21 1⁄4 in. (65 x 54.1 cm.)
Painted in 1920
