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    28 November 2007

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    • Fernand Léger (1881-1955)
    Lot 231

    Fernand Léger (1881-1955)

    Etude de murale

    Price realised

    GBP 11,875

    Estimate

    GBP 7,000 - GBP 10,000

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    Fernand Léger (1881-1955)
    Etude de murale
    signed with initials 'F.L.' (lower right)
    pencil, brush, black ink and gouache on paper
    8¼ x 9in. (21 x 22.8cm.)
    Executed in 1952

    Provenance

    Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago
    Perls Galleries, New York
    Anon. sale, Sotheby's Parke Bernet, Los Angeles, 21st May 1973, lot 90
    Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 13th June 1990, lot 139 where acquired by the present owner

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