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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2019 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 49 | $****** - ****** | NATURE MORTE AUX FRUITS SUR FOND BLEU | |||
May 6, 2004 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art - Evening Sale | 150 | $****** - ****** | Nature morte aux fruits sur fond bleu | |||
Jun 26, 2003 | Christie's | London | Impressionist & Modern Works on Paper | 437 | $****** - ****** | Nature morte aux pommes sur fond bleu |
paintings
130 x 88.9 cm (51.18 x 35 in)
Oil on canvas
Signed F. Leger and dated 39 (lower right); signed F. Leger, dated 1939 and titled (on the reverse)
Estate of the artist, France
Nadia Léger, Paris (by descent from the above and until at least 1957)
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (acquired by 1964)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above on January 18, 1969)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above on May 7, 1998 and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 6, 2004, lot 150)
Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired at the above sale)
Galerie Fabien Boulakia, Paris
Acquired from the above on December 6, 2005
Paris, Galerie Mai, Fernand Léger, oeuvres récentes, 1940
Stockholm, Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Retrospektiv Utställning Fernand Léger, 1948, no. 33
Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen, Fernand Léger, 1951, no. 20
Berlin, Hochschue für Bildende Künst, Berliner Festwochen, Werke französischer Meister der Gegenwart, 1952, no. 28
Paris, Musée des arts decoratifs & Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Fernand Léger, 1881-1955, 1956-57, no. 98
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Fernand Léger 1881-1955, 1957, no. 83
Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall, Fernand Léger 1881-1955, 1957, no. 27
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Fernand Léger, 1957, no. 97
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Fernand Léger, 1881-1855, 1964, no. 65
Marseille, Musée Cantini, Fernand Léger, 1966, no. 61
Tel-Aviv, Museum of Tel-Aviv, Fernand Léger, 1881-1955, 1967, no. 21
Basel, Galerie Beyeler & London, The Waddington Galleries, Fernand Léger, 1969-70, no. 38
Milan, Galleria Il Milione, Fernand Léger: Olii, guazzi, lavis, disegni, 1969-70, no. 10
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, The Silent Dialogue: The Still Life in the 20th Century, 1978-79, no. 59
Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Fernand Léger, 1881-1955, 1980-81, no. 93, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Biôt, Musée national Fernand Léger & Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Hommage à Fernand Léger 1881-1955. Exposition du centenaire, 1981-1982, nos. 76 & 33
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Fernand Léger, 1881-1981, 1981-82, no. 33
Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Fernand Léger, 1983, no. 24
Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, "... und nich die leiseste Spur einer Vorschrift..." Positionene unabhängiger Kunst in Europa um 1937, 1987-88, no. 60
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Magic Blue, 1993-94, no. 47
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Fernand Léger: Werke 1925-55, 1994-95, no. 19, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Jean Painlevé, "A propos d'un 'nouveau réalisme' chez Fernand Léger" in Cahiers d'Art, Paris, 1940, illustrated p. 73
Maurice Jardot, Léger, Paris, 1956, illustrated pl. 13
René Jullian, Fernand Léger, Basel, 1969, illustrated no. 47
Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, ed., Hommage à Fernand Léger, Paris, 1971, illustrated in color n.p.
Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, 1938-1943, vol. VI, Paris, 1998, illustrated in color p. 133
Carolyn Lanchner, Fernand Léger (exhibition catalogue), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1998, illustrated p. 145
Signed F. Leger and dated 39 (lower right); signed F. Leger, dated 1939 and titled (on the reverse)
Oil on canvas
51 by 35 in.
130 by 88.9 cm
Painted in 1939.
