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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 21, 2012 | Christie's | London | Impressionist/Modern Works on Paper | 157 | $****** - ****** | Silex blanc sur fond jaune | |||
Feb 9, 2006 | Christie's | London | Impressionist & Modern Works on Paper | 619 | $****** - ****** | Silex blanc sur fond jaune |
Works on Paper
49.5 x 70 cm (19.49 x 27.56 in)
gouache and pen and india ink on cream paper
signed with the artist's initials, dated and inscribed 'Silex Sept.32 - F.L' (lower right)
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (no. 14973). Acquired from the above in 1970;
sale, Christie's, London, 9 February 2006, lot 619.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Basel, Galerie d'Art Moderne [Marie-Susanne Feigel], Fernand Léger, Gouaches et Dessins de 1921 à 1938, November 1964 - January 1965,. no. 29. Tokyo, Seibu Gallery, Rétrospective Fernand Léger, March - April 1972, no. 42; this exhibition later travelled to Nagoya, Meitetsu Gallery and Fukuoka, Cultural Centre. Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne, Cabinet d'Art Graphique, Fernand. Léger, La Poésie de l'Objet 1928-1934, May - July 1981, no. 28. (illustrated p. 61). Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Fernand Léger, 1983, no. 77. Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Fernand Léger, Oeuvres sur papier, April - June 1989, no. 76. Milan, Palazzo Reale, Fernand Léger, November 1989 - February. 1990, no. 114. Villeneuve d'Ascq, Musée d'Art Moderne, Fernand Léger, March - June 1990, no. 122. Helsinki, Ateneum, Léger og Norden, August - October 1992, no. 57; this exhibition later travelled to Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Høvikodden, Henie-Onstad Kunstsentret and Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst. Tokyo, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Fernand Léger, April - June. 1994, no. 108; this exhibition later travelled to Kagawa, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Aichi, Prefectural Museum of Modern Art and Ibaraki, The Museum of Modern Art. Paris, Galerie Berggruen & Cie, Fernand Léger, gouaches, aquarelles et dessins, October - November 1996, no. 32 (illustrated). Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne, Fernand Léger, May - September 1997, no. 2 (illustrated p. 196). Madrid, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Fernand Léger, October 1997 - January 1998.
J. Cassou & J. Leymarie, Fernand Léger, Drawings and Gouaches, London, 1973, no. 171 (illustrated p. 123). P. de Francia, Fernand Léger, New Haven, 1983, no. 6.9 (illustrated p. 119).
