Details
FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)
Deux femmes
oil on canvas
51 1/4 x 31 7/8 in. (130.2 x 81.2 cm.)
Painted in 1929
Provenance
Dr. Ingeborg Pudelko-Eichmann, Venice (by 1949).
Private collection, Switzerland (by 1979).
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above, circa 1999); sale, Christie’s, London, 4 February 2014, lot 30.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
D. Cooper, Fernand Léger et le nouvel espace, Geneva, 1949, pp. 112 and 192 (illustrated, p. 112).
"Hommage à Fernand Léger" in Les lettres françaises, Paris, no. 582, 25-31 August 1955, p. 12 (illustrated).
E.F. Fry, ed., Functions of Painting: Fernand Léger New York, 1973, p. 70 (illustrated in situ in the artist’s studio, p. 27; dated circa 1925).
G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, 1929-1931, Paris, 1995, vol. IV, p. 94, no. 657 (illustrated, p. 95).
I. Monod-Fontaine and C. Laugier, Fernand Léger exh. cat., Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1997, p. 27 (illustrated in situ in the artist’s studio, p. 27).
Exhibited
Kunsthalle Bern, Fernand Léger April-May 1952, no. 54.
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Paintings by Fernand Léger September-October 1952, no. 20.
Mechelen, Culturel Centrum Burgemeester A. Spinoy, Fernand Léger October-December 1979, p. 60, no. 33. Kunsthaus Zürich, 1979-1999 (on extended loan).
Details
FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)
Deux femmes
oil on canvas
51 1/4 x 31 7/8 in. (130.2 x 81.2 cm.)
Painted in 1929
Provenance
Dr. Ingeborg Pudelko-Eichmann, Venice (by 1949).
Private collection, Switzerland (by 1979).
Private collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above, circa 1999); sale, Christie’s, London, 4 February 2014, lot 30.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
D. Cooper, Fernand Léger et le nouvel espace, Geneva, 1949, pp. 112 and 192 (illustrated, p. 112).
"Hommage à Fernand Léger" in Les lettres françaises, Paris, no. 582, 25-31 August 1955, p. 12 (illustrated).
E.F. Fry, ed., Functions of Painting: Fernand Léger New York, 1973, p. 70 (illustrated in situ in the artist’s studio, p. 27; dated circa 1925).
G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, 1929-1931, Paris, 1995, vol. IV, p. 94, no. 657 (illustrated, p. 95).
I. Monod-Fontaine and C. Laugier, Fernand Léger exh. cat., Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1997, p. 27 (illustrated in situ in the artist’s studio, p. 27).
Exhibited
Kunsthalle Bern, Fernand Léger April-May 1952, no. 54.
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Paintings by Fernand Léger September-October 1952, no. 20.
Mechelen, Culturel Centrum Burgemeester A. Spinoy, Fernand Léger October-December 1979, p. 60, no. 33. Kunsthaus Zürich, 1979-1999 (on extended loan).
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