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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 3, 2010 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 16 | $****** - ****** | Les Fumées Sur Les Toits |
paintings
61 x 46 cm (24.02 x 18.11 in)
oil on canvas
signed F. Léger (lower left)
René Gaffé, Brussels (acquired circa 1925
until 1949) Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (acquired in 1949) Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm (acquired in 1950) Dr Stina Thyselius-Lundberg, Drottningholm, Sweden (acquired by 1954
until 1981) Galerie Nathan, Zurich (acquired in 1981) Private Collection (acquired from the above) Thence by descent to the present owner.
Stockholm, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Från Cézanne till Picasso, 1954, no. 179 Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Léger, 1964, no. 1 Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Kubismus - Künstler, Themen, Werke, 1907-1920, 1982, no. 72, illustrated in colour in the catalogue London, Tate Gallery, The Essential Cubism, 1907-1920, 1983, no. 95, illustrated in colour in the catalogue (as dating from mid-1911) Tokyo, The Bunkamura Museum of Art; Marugame, Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art & Ibaraki, The Museum of Modern Art, Fernand Léger, 1994, no. 1, illustrated in colour in the catalogue Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne & Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Fernand Léger, 1997-98, illustrated in colour in the catalogue Paris, Hôtel de Ville, Paris sous le ciel de la peinture, 2000, illustrated in colour in the catalogue Tübingen, Kunsthalle, Henri Rousseau. Der Zöllner, Grenzgänger zur Moderne, 2001, illustrated in colour in the catalogue Tübingen, Kunsthalle, Die Kunst des Handelns: Meisterwerke des 14. bis 20. Jahrhunderts bei Fritz und Peter Nathan, 2005-06, no. 168, illustrated in colour in the catalogue.
Andreas Franzke, 'Die Landschaft im Kubismus', in Kubismus Künstler, Themen, Werke, 1907-1920, Cologne, 1982, illustrated p. 102 Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger. Catalogue raisonné de l'uvre peint, 1903-1919, Paris, 1990, no. 32, illustrated in colour p. 59 Jolanda Nigro Covre, Astrattismo - Temi e forme dell'astrazione nelle avanguardie europee, Milan, 2002, illustrated in colour p. 198.
