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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)




