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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 16, 2025 | Christie's | London | Spellbound: The Hegewisch Collection, Part I | 332 | $****** - ****** | Le Fumeur |
Works on Paper
32 x 24.4 cm (12.6 x 9.61 in)
pencil on paper
Nadia Léger (1904-1982), Vitebsk, Warsaw & Paris; by descent from the artist in 1955, until at least 1972.
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 4 April 1979, lot 250.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Biot, Musée Fernand Léger, on long term loan from Nadia Léger.
Marseille, Musée Cantini, Fernand Léger , June - August 1966, no. 28 (titled "Étude pour Le fumeur"; with incorrect medium).
Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Fernand Léger - Peintures, gouaches, dessins, June - September 1967, no. 39 (ill.; titled "Étude pour Le fumeur").
Dusseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle, Fernand Léger , December 1969 - February 1970, no. 119, p. 25 (titled "Étude pour Le fumeur").
Paris, Grand Palais, Fernand Léger , October 1971 - January 1972, no. 295, pp. 166 & 176 (ill.; titled "Étude pour le fumeur").
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Fernand Léger , May - September 1997, no. 2, p. 104 (ill.); this exhibition later travelled to Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, October 1997 - January 1998, p. 184 (ill.); and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, February - May 1998, p. 192 (ill.).
J. Cassou & J. Leymarie, Fernand Léger - Dessins et gouaches, Paris, 1972, no. 86, pp. 70-71 (ill.).
B. Chaet, The Art of Drawing , New York, 1983, no. 46, pp. 36-37 (ill.; titled "Study for The Smoker").
P. de Francia, Fernand Léger , London, 1983, fig. 7.26, pp. 146 & 149 (ill.).
FERNAND LÉGER (1881-1955)
Le Fumeur
pencil on paper
32 x 24,4 cm. (12 5/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
Drawn circa 1921
