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FERNAND LÉGER (1881-1955)
Nature morte tricolore
signed and dated 'F.LÉGER 38' (lower right); signed, dated and inscribed 'NATURE-MORTE TRICOLORE F.LEGER.38' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
19 5⁄8 x 25 1⁄2 in. (50 x 64.8 cm.)
Painted in 1938
Provenance
Perls Galleries, New York, by 1952.
Anonymous sale, Espace Cardin, Paris, 28 April 1981, lot 118.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 31 March 1982, lot 114.
Galleria Annunciata, Milan.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 15 May 1985, lot 363.
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo.
Landau Fine Art, Montreal.
Heather James, Palm Beach.
Acquired from the above by the present owner on 15 January 2014.
Literature
G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger Catalogue raisonné 1938-1943, l'œuvre peint, Paris, 1998, no. 1022, p. 80 (illustrated p. 81).
Exhibited
New York, Perls Galleries, The Perls Galleries Collection of Modern French Paintings, March - May 1952, no. 79.
New York, Perls Galleries, Fernand Léger October - November 1952, no. 17.
Museum of Modern Art, New York (on loan).
New York, Perls Galleries, Fernand Léger October - November 1955, no. 16.
London, Gimpel Fils Gallery Ltd., Fernand Léger Paintings 1918-1938, June - August 1965, no. 23 (illustrated).
New York, Perls Galleries, Fernand Léger Oil Paintings, November - December 1968, no. 19 (illustrated).
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