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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 7, 2008 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 16 | $****** - ****** | Étude Pour'La Femme En Bleu |
paintings
129.8 x 96.8 cm (51.1 x 38.11 in)
oil on canvas
Signed F. LEGER and dated 12-13 (lower right); signed F. LEGER and inscribed Esquisse pour "La femme en bleu" on the reverse
Galerie Der Sturm (Herwarth Walden), Berlin (on consignment from the artist from 1913)
Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf, Berlin (by 1927). Hermann Lange, Krefeld (acquired circa 1928). Thence by descent to the present owners
Berlin, Galerie Der Sturm, Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon, 1913, no. 252 (titled Die Frau in Blau). Berlin, Lehrter Bahnhof, Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung - Farbige Raumkunst, 1926, no. 1745 (titled Esquisse pour la femme au bleu). Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle, Wege und Richtungen der abstrakten Malerei in Europa, 1927, no. 157 (titled Skizze zur Frau in Blau and dated 12-13). Recklinghausen, Städtische Kunsthalle, Mensch und Form unserer Zeit, 1952, illustrated in the catalogue (titled An der Theke). Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Polariteit: het appolinische en het dionysische in de kunst, 1961, no. A73, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Aan de bar - Femme en bleu). Recklinghausen, Städtische Kunsthalle, Kunstwerke aus drei Jahrtausenden gesammelt im Ruhrgebiet, 1963, no. 141, illustrated in the catalogue (titled An der Bar - La Femme en bleu). Frankfurt, Kunstverein, Vom Impressionismus zum Bauhaus: Meisterwerke aus deutschem Privatbesitz, 1966, no. 39, illustrated in the catalogue. Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (on loan since 2003)
Christian Zervos, Fernand Léger, Oeuvres de 1905 à 1952, Paris, 1952, illustrated p. 33. Quadrum, no. 2, Brussels, November 1956, featured in an in situ photograph of the 1952 exhibition p. 19. Ewald Rathke, Vom Impressionismus zum Bauhaus, Hanau, 1967, no. 39, illustrated (upside-down and titled La femme en bleu). Georg Brühl, Herwarth Walden und 'Der Sturm', Cologne, 1983, reprinted listing of the Der Sturm 1913 exhibition p. 250. Anette Kruszynski et al., K20K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Anno 2005/2006, Düsseldorf, 2006, illustrated in color p. 63
