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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 6, 2007 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 44 | $****** - ****** | Etude pour Les constructeurs, fond bleu |
paintings
129.5 x 88.9 cm (50.98 x 35 in)
oil on canvas
signed F. Leger, l.r. and verso; dated 50, l.r.; 51, verso; inscribed Esquisse pour le tableau definitif, verso
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris. Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, Chicago (by 1967).
Private collection, United States.
Private collection, Paris.
New York, Louis Carré Gallery, 70th Anniversary Exhibition Léger, 1951, no. 17. Bern, Kunsthalle, Fernand Léger, 1952, no. 4. New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 6th Exhibition of Paintings by Léger, Selected from the Years 1918-1954, December 1960-January 1961, no. 16 (illustrated). New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Fernand Léger: Five Themes and Variations, February-April 1962, no. 52 (illustrated, p. 64). Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 100 European Paintings & Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Block, May-November 1967, no. 45. New York, Acquavella Galleries, XIX & XX Century Masters Paintings, October-November 1981, no. 17 (illustrated in color, p. 36). Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Collections privées française 1945-1985, July-October 1986, no. 44 (illustrated in color, p. 85). Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Fernand Léger, November 2002-January 2003, p. 153 (illustrated). New York, Helly Nahmad Gallery, F. LEGER, February-May 2005.
F. Saphire and L. Mourlot, Fernand Léger, l'oeuvre gravé, New York, 1976. G. Diehl, Fernand Léger, Paris, 1985. P. Descargues, Fernand Léger, Paris, 1995, p. 173 (illustrated in color). G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint 1949-1951, Paris, 1996, p. 144, no. 1401 (illustrated in color, p. 145).
