LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

21.38 in. (54.30 cm.) (height) by 19.80 in. (50.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'F.LÉGER' (lower right); signed and dated 'F.LÉGER 1-1918' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, F. Léger, peintures antérieures à 1940, January - February 1945, p. 25 (illustrated).Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, Fernand Léger, 1912-1939, 1946-1948, June - July 1948, no. 2.Lyon, Musée de Lyon, Fernand Léger, 1955, no. 10 (illustrated fig. 4).Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs, Fernand Léger, June - October 1956, no. 25 (illustrated p. 119).Zurich, Kunsthaus , Fernand Léger, July - August 1957, no. 17.Paris, Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Oeuvres choisies du XXe siècle, May - June 1962, no. 36 (illustrated).Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Fernand Léger, October - November 1964, no. 5 (illustrated).

Literature:

L. Degrand, 'L'Héritage de Fernand Léger', in Aujourd'hui: art et architecture, no. 9, September 1956, p. 7 (illustrated).Exh. cat., Architecture contemporaine, intégration des Arts, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, 1957 (illustrated).P. de Francia, Fernand Léger, New Haven & London, 1983, p. 46. G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. I, 1903-1919, Paris, 1990, no. 123, p. 222 (illustrated p. 223).

Provenance:

Gaston Bernheim, Paris.Louis Carré, Paris (no. 1366), by whom acquired from the above in 1938. Private collection, France.