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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 8, 2006 | Sotheby's | New York | Modern Art - Afternoon | 391 | $****** - ****** | Constructeurs |
paintings
108.3 x 138.1 cm (42.64 x 54.37 in)
oil on canvas
signed
Nadia Léger, Paris. Galerie Louise Leiris (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris (by 1962). Nathan Cummings, New York (by 1970);
sale, Sotheby's, New York, 15 May 1984, lot 81. Joel Friedland, Miami. Sara Lee Corporation, Chicago (1987). Stephen A. Wynn, Las Vegas (by 1998).
Gagosian Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the previous owner
Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, Fernand Léger: Sculptures polychromes en céramique , January - February 1953. Munich, Haus der Kunst, Fernand Léger , March - May 1957, no. 115, p. 94 (dated '1950'). Basel, Kunsthalle, Fernand Léger , May - June 1957, no. 62; this exhibition later travelled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, July - August 1957. Copenhagen, Charlottenborg, Fernand Léger: Malerier tegninger og grafik , 1959, no. 48. New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Fernand Léger: Five Themes and Variations , February - April 1962, no. 47, p. 52 (illustrated p. 59). Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Fernand Léger , October - November 1964, no. 82. Bremen, Galerie Michael Hertz, Fernand Léger: Werke aus den Jahren 1909 bis 1955 , February - April 1966, no. 15, p. 27 (illustrated p. 23). Colmar, Musée DUnterlinden, Fernand Léger , June - September 1966, no. 21. New London, Lyman Allyn Museum and Paris, Musée Galliera, Art et Travail , February 1968 - March 1969. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Selection from the Nathan Cummings Collection , June - September 1970, no. 46, p. 61 (illustrated; dated '1951'); this exhibition later travelled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, July - September 1971. The Art Institute of Chicago, Major Works from the Collection of Nathan Cummings , October - December 1973, no. 59, p. 68 (illustrated; dated '1951'). Winston-Salem, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, An Impressionist Legacy: The Collection of the Sara Lee Corporation , September - December 1990; this exhibition later travelled to Memphis, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, January - March 1991
Cahiers dArt , vol. XXVI, 1951, p. 191 (illustrated). C. Roy, Les Constructeurs , Paris, 1951 (illustrated and again in situ ). P. Descargues, Fernand Léger , Paris, 1955, p. 174 (illustrated p. 164; titled 'Les constructeurs, étude' and dated '1951'). Fernand Léger: The Later Years , exh. cat., Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1987, p. 66 (illustrated in situ ). G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Vivre dans le vrai , Paris, 1987, p. 271 (illustrated in situ ). R.R. Brettell, An Impressionist Legacy: The Collection of the Sara Lee Corporation , New York, 1990, pp. 118 & 141 (illustrated on the cover and pp. 119-121; dated '1951'). H. Lassalle, Léger , Paris, 1997, p. 42 (illustrated). Fernand Léger , exh. cat., Musée National dArt Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1997, p. 352 (illustrated in situ ). L. Limpkin, The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: European and American Masters , 1998, pp. 8, 179 & 181 (illustrated p. 180). G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1949-1951 , Paris, 2003, no. 1396, p. 134 (illustrated p. 135; titled 'Les Constructeurs, étude, fragment den haut, avec arbre')
