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The Collection of Robert F. and Patricia G. Ross Weis
FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)
Composition avec personnages
Details
FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)
Composition avec personnages
signed and dated 'F. LEGER. 20' (lower right); signed and dated again and titled 'Composition avec personnages F LÉGER 20' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
21 ¼ x 25 ½ in. (54 x 64.8 cm.)
Painted in 1920
Composition avec personnages
signed and dated 'F. LEGER. 20' (lower right); signed and dated again and titled 'Composition avec personnages F LÉGER 20' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
21 ¼ x 25 ½ in. (54 x 64.8 cm.)
Painted in 1920
Provenance
Georges Aubry, Paris; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26 February 1927, lot 90.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Seized from the National Bank of Commerce and Industry, Libourne, by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, 5 September 1941 (ERR inv. No. PR 51); transferred to the Jeu de Paume, Paris, 6 September 1941; returned to the Möbel Aktion for sale and intended for transfer by train to the Nazi depot Nikolsburg, Moravia, 1 August 1944; restituted to Paul Rosenberg, New York (September 1945).
Michelene Rosenberg Sinclair, New York (by descent from the above).
Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owners, 20 May 1975.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Seized from the National Bank of Commerce and Industry, Libourne, by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, 5 September 1941 (ERR inv. No. PR 51); transferred to the Jeu de Paume, Paris, 6 September 1941; returned to the Möbel Aktion for sale and intended for transfer by train to the Nazi depot Nikolsburg, Moravia, 1 August 1944; restituted to Paul Rosenberg, New York (September 1945).
Michelene Rosenberg Sinclair, New York (by descent from the above).
Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owners, 20 May 1975.
Literature
A. Verdet, Fernand Léger: Le dynamisme pictural, Geneva, 1955, pp. 23-24.
G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné, 1920-1924, Paris, 1992, vol. II, p. 88, no. 244 (illustrated in color; titled Trois femmes).
G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné, 1920-1924, Paris, 1992, vol. II, p. 88, no. 244 (illustrated in color; titled Trois femmes).
Exhibited
New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., Fernand Léger, October-December 1987, pp. 48 and 78, no. 23 (illustrated in color, p. 48; titled Trois femmes).
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Imogen Kerr
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