LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

7 x 7

Description:

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Markings:

signed F.Lger and dated 50(lower right); signedF. Leger. titled and dated 50(on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Lyon, Muse des Beaux-Arts, Fernand Lger, 1955, no. 75; Houston, Rice University Institute for the Arts, Lger our Contemporary, 1978, no. 39, p. 56, illustrated

Literature:

Christian Zervos, Fernand Lger, Oeuvres de 1905  1952, Paris, 1952, p. 87, illustrated (titled Composition au chapeau vert and dated 1951); Georges Bauquier,Fernand Lger, Catalogue raisonn de luvre peint, 1949-1951,Paris, 1996, no. 1370, p. 91, illustrated in color

Provenance:

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris; Marie Cuttoli, Paris; Perls Galleries, New York; Jeffrey Horwitz Ltd., Los Angeles (acquired by 1978); Kornfeld und Klipstein Berne, 25 June 1982, lot 180; Private Collection, Switzerland; Sothebys London, 26 March 1985, lot 56 (consigned by the above); Waddington Galleries, London; Acquired from the above on 28 May 1986 by the present owner