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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Fernand Léger

Composition à la plante verte, premier état

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Fernand Léger

1881 - 1955


Composition à la plante verte, premier état

signed F. LEGER, dedicated a nadia Amicalement and dated 39 (lower right)

oil on canvas

65 by 92.1 cm. 25⅝ by 36¼ in.

Executed in 1939.

Nadia Léger, France (the artist’s wife; acquired as a gift from the artist)

Galerie Garibaldi, Marseille

Private Collection (acquired from the above circa 1950)

Private Collection, Paris (acquired by descent from the above by 1998)

Christie’s, Paris, 1 December 2009, lot 125 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Marseille, Musée Cantini, Fernand Léger, 1966, no. 60, n.p., illustrated (titled Composition and with inverted dimensions)

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia and New York, The Museum of Modern Art,

Fernand Léger, 1997-98, n.n., p. 213, illustrated in colour (titled Nature morte à la plante verte)

Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint 1938-1943, vol. VI, Paris, 1998, no. 1057, p. 126, illustrated in colour