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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 12, 2021 | Christie's | New York | 20th Century Evening Sale | 72C | $****** - ****** | La Gare | |||
May 8, 2007 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art - Evening Sale | 33 | $****** - ****** | Gare |
paintings
65.1 x 81.3 cm (25.63 x 32 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'F.LEGER. 18' (lower right); signed and dated again and titled 'LA GARE -18- F.LEGER ' (on the reverse)
Galerie de l'Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris (acquired from the artist, 17 January 1919).
Pierre Faure, Paris (by 1933).
Rose Valland, Paris (probably on behalf of the above, by May 1939).
Galerie Louis Carré, Paris (acquired from the above, 31 May 1944).
Nadia Léger, Paris (by 1955).
Galerie Louise Leiris (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris (acquired from the above, 1966).
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above, 6 June 1968).
Private collection, United Kingdom (acquired from the above, 13 February 1974); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 8 May 2007, lot 33.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Paris, Galerie de L’Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Oeuvres par Fernand Léger , February 1919, no. 29.
Geneva, Galerie Moos, La jeune peinture française: Les Cubistes , February 1920, no. 85.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Juan Gris/Fernand Léger , April-May 1933, p. 10, no. 73.
Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Fernand Léger, Exposition rétrospective , October-November 1949, no. 30.
Kunsthalle Basel and Kunsthaus Zürich, Léger , May-August 1957, no. 19 and 20 respectively.
Rome, Palazzo Barberini, Omaggio ad Apollinaire , 1960-1961.
Basel, Galerie Beyeler and Düsseldorf, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Léger , August 1969-February 1970, p. 66, no. 7 and p. 22, no. 21 respectively (illustrated in color).
Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts (on extended loan, until 2007).
F. Elgar, "Le primitif des temps modernes" in XXe siècle, numéro spécial hors abonnement: Hommage à F. Léger , 1971, p. 29 (illustrated in color).
P. de Francia, Fernand Léger , New Haven, 1983, p. 45.
G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné, 1903-1919 , Paris, 1990, vol. I, p. 256, no. 143 (illustrated in color, p. 257).
C. Derouet, Correspondances Fernand Léger - Léonce Rosenberg, 1917-1937 , New York, 1996, p. 47, letter 46, note 3 and pp. 262 and 286.
Fernand Lé ger , exh. cat., Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1997, p. 337.
C. Derouet, "Deux remarques sur le destin de Louis Carré et de sa galerie" in Galerie Louis Carré: Histoire et actualité , exh. cat., Association Campredon Art et Culture, Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, 2000, pp. 61-62.
C. Bouchoux, Rose Valland: La résistance au musée , La Cre'che, 2006, pp 20-21.
FERNAND LÉGER (1881-1955)
La Gare
signed and dated 'F.LEGER. 18' (lower right); signed and dated again and titled 'LA GARE -18- F.LEGER ' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 32 in. (65 x 81.2 cm.)
Painted in 1918
