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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 13, 2015 | Christie's | New York | Eve. Impressionist and Modern Evening Sale | 49C | $****** - ****** | Nature morte au buste (Définitif) | |||
Feb 9, 2011 | Christie's | London | Impressionist/Modern Evening Sale | 26 | $****** - ****** | Nature morte au buste |
paintings
64.8 x 49.9 cm (25.5 x 19.63 in)
oil on canvas
Galerie de L'Effort moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris.
Douglas Cooper, London and Argilliers (by December 1937).
William A. McCarty-Cooper, London and Los Angeles (by descent from the above).
John McCarty, Miami (by descent from the above); sale, Christie’s, London, 9 February 2011, lot 26.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
London, Roland, Browse and Delbanco, Currents of Post-Impressionism in France and England, July 1946, p. 3, no. 8.
Birmingham, City Art Museum, French Art, October-November 1947.
London, National Gallery of Art and Leeds, City Art Gallery, Fernand Léger: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, Lithographs and Book Illustrations, February-April 1950, no. 25 (illustrated, pl. 8) and no. 21 respectively.
Lowestoft Art Centre, Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings from the Private Collection of Douglas Cooper, January 1951.
Saint-Etienne, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Natures mortes de Géricault à nos jours, April-May 1955, pp. 21 and 32, no. 57 (illustrated, fig. 42).
Marseilles, Musée Cantini, Fernand Léger, June-August 1966, no. 37 (illustrated).
Museum of Fine Arts Houston and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Picasso, Braque, Gris, Léger: Douglas Cooper Collecting Cubism, October 1990-April 1991, pp. 14, 52 and 61, no. 38 (illustrated in color, p. 18, no. 15).
D. Cooper, Fernand Léger et le nouvel espace, Geneva, 1949, p. 100 (illustrated).<br>C. Zervos, Fernand Léger: Oeuvres de 1905 à 1952, Paris, 1952, p. 94 (illustrated, p. 56).<br>G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1920-1924, Paris, 1992, p. 318, no. 382 (illustrated, p. 319).<br>J.S. Boggs, Picasso and Things, Cleveland, 1992, p. 18 (illustrated, fig. 5).
