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Property Sold to Benefit the New Jewish Home

Fernand Léger

Le Bateau de pêche

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property Sold to Benefit the New Jewish Home 

Fernand Léger

1881 - 1955


Le Bateau de pêche 

signed F. Leger and dated 54 (lower right); signed F. Leger., titled and dated 54 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

25 ⅝ by 21 ¼ in.

65 by 54 cm.

Executed in 1954.

Estate of the artist 

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris 

Daniel Wallard, Paris 

Paris, Hôtel des Ventes, 29 March 1981, lot 185

Galleria BLU, Milan

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above on 7 May 1984)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above on 17 September 1986)

Acquired as a gift from the above by the present owner 

Georges Bauquier, Irus Hansma and Claude Lefebvre du Preÿ, Fernand Léger. Catalouge raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, 1954-1955, supplement et corrections des volumes precedents, Paris, 2013, no. 1612, p. 46, illustrated

London, Edward Totah Gallery, Fernand Léger. Paintings, Gouaches, Drawings and Prints, 1983