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Impressionist & Modern Art

3255* FERNAND LÉGER

(Argentan 1881 – 1955 Gif-sur-Yvette)

Composition. 1946.

Oil on canvas.

Right in the middle signed in the compo-

sition: F. LEGER, as well as signed, dated

and titled on the reverse: Composition / F.

LEGER 46.

24 x 41 cm.

Provenance:

- Galerie Louis Carré, Paris.

- Galerie Blanche, Stockholm.

- Galerie Bonnier, Geneva.

- Christie's London, 5 December 1978,

lot 78.

- bought by the present owner at the

above auction.

Exhibitions:

- Lausanne 1961, Fernand Léger, Galerie

Bonnier, May - June 1961, no. 6.

- Stockholm 1964, Fernand Léger

1881 - 1955, Moderna Museet,

October - November 1964, no. 76b.

- Geneva 1972, Comparaisons.

Oeuvres de Degas à Arman,

Galerie Bonnier, May - July 1972.

- Geneva/Paris 1974, F. Léger,

Galerie Motte, Galerie 22,

September - November 1974, no. 3.

Literature: Bauquier, Geogres: Fernand

Léger. Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre

Peint 1944-1948, Paris 2000, no. 1225, p.

118 (with ill.).

CHF 300 000 / 500 000

(€ 267 860 / 446 430)