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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 7, 2012 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 38 | $****** - ****** | Nature morte aux bustes |
paintings
91.4 x 64.8 cm (35.98 x 25.51 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'F.LEGER.27' (lower right)
Galerie Simon (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris. Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (by 1956). Saidenberg Galleries, New York. Perls Galleries, New York (by 1968). Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York. Thomas Gibson Fine Art, New York. Chris Seames, New York.
James Goodman Gallery, New York. Acquired from the above by the late owners, August 1979.
Berlin, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Exposition Fernand Léger, February-March 1928, p. 12, no. 47 (titled Stilleben mit zwei Büsten). Société Royale des beaux-arts de Verviers; Cercle royal artistique et littéraire de Gand and Brussels, Palais des Beaux-arts, La peinture sois le signe d'Apollinaire, October-December 1950, no. 34. London, Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., Fernand Léger: Paintings, Drawings, Lithographs, Ceramics, December 1954-January 1955, p. 13, no. 6 (illustrated, p. 12; titled Nature morte). Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs and Brussels, Palais des Beaux-arts, Fernand Léger 1881-1955, June-October 1956, p. 190, no. 60 (illustrated, p. 191). Kunsthaus Zurich (no. 67); Munich, Haus der Kunst (no. 47); Museum am Ostwall Dortmund (no. 16) and Kunstmuseum Basel, Fernand Léger, July-October 1957, p. 60 (illustrated). Chicago, International Galleries, Fernand Léger, 1881-1955, Retrospective Exhibition, November-December 1966, p. 58, no. 22 (illustrated, p. 27). New York, Perls Galleries, Fernand Léger: Oil Paintings, November-December 1968, no. 4 (illustrated).
G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1925-1928, Paris, 1993, vol. III, p. 208, no. 513 (illustrated). C. Derouet, ed., Fernand Léger, exh. cat., Paris, 1997, p. 317 (illustrated in an installation photograph).
