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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 16, 2018 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 18A | $****** - ****** | Les trois femmes au bouquet | |||
May 13, 1999 | Christie's | New York | The Maurice & Margo Cohen Collection | 467 | $****** - ****** | Trois femmes au bouquet |
paintings
65.7 x 92.4 cm (25.88 x 36.38 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'F. LÉGER 22' (lower right), signed and dated again and titled 'F. LÉGER 22 LES trois femmes au bouquet' (on the reverse)
Galerie Simon (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris.
Galerie Pierre Loeb (Galerie Pierre), Paris (1926).
Dr. G.F. Reber, Lausanne (by 1930).
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (acquired from the above, 13 October 1949).
Dr. Charles Bensinger, Chicago (1949).
William Beadleston, Inc., New York (1982).
Donald Morris Gallery, Inc., Birmingham, Michigan (acquired from the above).
Maurice and Margo Cohen, Birmingham, Michigan (acquired from the above, 7 December 1982); sale, Christie's, New York, 13 May 1999, lot 467.
Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owners, 31 May 2001.
C. Einstein, Die Kunst des 20: Jarhunderts, Berlin, 1928, p. 561, no. 331 (illustrated; titled Drei Frauen).
D. Kosinski, "G.F. Reber: Collector of Cubism" in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 133, no. 1061, August 1991, p. 530 (illustrated in situ in Reber's Château de Béthusy in Lausanne, p. 520; titled Three Women and dated 1921).
G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuve peint, 1920-1924, Paris, 1992, vol. II, p. 204, no. 317 (illustrated in color, p. 205).
A. Pophanken and F. Billeter, Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: Franzo¨sische Kunst in Deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, Berlin, 2001, p. 399, no. 4 (illustrated in situ in Reber's Château de Béthusy in Lausanne in 1930, p. 373).
E. Braun and R. Rabinow, Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2014, pp. 217 and 220 (illustrated in color, p. 217, fig. 94).
signed and dated 'F. LÉGER 22' (lower right); signed and dated again and titled 'F. LÉGER 22 LES trois femmes au bouquet' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
25 ⅞ x 36 ⅜ in. (65.6 x 92.2 cm.)
Painted in 1922
