LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

35 1?8 x 22 7?8 in. (89.3 x 58.3 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie de l’Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Fernand Léger, February 1919, no. 28. Paris, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Léger, February 1937, no. 2. Paris, Petit Palais, Les maîtres de l'art indépendant, 1895-1937, June-October 1937, p. 102, no. 5 (dated 1919). The Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco, Museum of Art and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Léger, April 1953-January 1954, p. 85, no. 15. London, The Tate Gallery, Léger and Purist Paris, November 1970-January 1971, p. 98, no. 10 (illustrated on the frontispiece). Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Fernand Léger, October 1971-January 1972, p. 9, no. 34 (illustrated, pl. XVIII). London, The Tate Gallery (on extended loan, 1990-1995). Basel, Kunstmuseum, Fernand Léger 1911-1924: Le rhythme de la vie moderne, September-November 1994, p. 245, no. 32 (illustrated in color, p. 155).

Literature:

Bulletin de l’Effort Moderne, April 1927, no. 34 (illustrated). E. Tériade, Fernand Léger, Paris, 1928 (illustrated, pl. 22; titled Etude pour les acrobates). Cahiers d'Art, 1933, no. 3-4, pp. 16-17 (illustrated). D. Cooper, Fernand Léger et le nouvel espace, Geneva, 1949, p. 84 (illustrated; dated 1920). R. Füglister, "F. Léger, Akrobaten im Zirkus" in Jahresberichte der öffentlichen Kunstammlung, Basel, 1966, pp. 167-186. W. Schmalenbach, Fernand Léger, New York, 1976, p. 22, no. 18 (illustrated). G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1903-1919, Paris, 1990, vol. I, p. 206, no. 113 (illustrated, p. 207). C. Derouet, Correspondances Fernand Léger–Léonce Rosenberg 1917-1937, New York, 1996, p. 42, letter 39, note 5, no. 5990, and pp. 261 and 286.

Provenance:

Galerie de l'Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris (acquired from the artist, 11 October 1918). Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Paris and Tours (by 1927). Confiscated from the above following the Nazi occupation of France (May 1940). Restituted to Paul Rosenberg, New York (after 1945, until at least 1954). E.V. Thaw & Co., New York. Heinz Berggruen, Paris. Norman and Grete Granz, Geneva (acquired from the above, by 1970); sale, Christie’s, New York, 6 November 2002, lot 41. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.