Lot Essay
Sold with a photo-certificate from the Chagall Comit dated Saint-Paul, le 1er mars 1990.
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Composition la colombe
Details
Fernand Lger (1881-1955)
Composition la colombe
signed and dated '43 F. LEGER' (lower right); signed, inscribed and dated 'Esquisse pour LA "RACINE BLANCHE" F. LEGER. 43' (on the reverse)
oil on canvasboard
15.7/8 x 11.7/8in. (40.5 x 30cm.)
Painted in 1943
Composition la colombe
signed and dated '43 F. LEGER' (lower right); signed, inscribed and dated 'Esquisse pour LA "RACINE BLANCHE" F. LEGER. 43' (on the reverse)
oil on canvasboard
15.7/8 x 11.7/8in. (40.5 x 30cm.)
Painted in 1943
Provenance
Anon. sale, Htel Drouot, Paris, 28 March 1983, lot 40.
Literature
G. Bauquier, Fernand Lger, Catalogue Raisonn de l'Oeuvre Peint 1938-1943, Paris 1998, no. 1122 (illustrated in colour p. 234).
Exhibited
New York, Valentine Gallery, Fernand Lger: New Paintings, March-April 1944, no. 11.
Marseille, Muse Cantini, Fernand Lger, June-August 1966, no. 67 (illustrated).
Marseille, Muse Cantini, Fernand Lger, June-August 1966, no. 67 (illustrated).