E&R Cyzer catalogue 2017 - Flipbook - Page 28
Fernand Léger
(French, 1881 - 1955)
Composition
1926
Gouache and brush and ink on paper laid down on card
13½ x 98 inches / 34.3 x 24.4 cm
Initialled and dated lower centre: F.L. 26
Provenance
Galerie Simon, Paris
Josef Müller, Solothurn (acquired from the above in 1926)
Monique Barbier (by descent from the above)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above in 1979)
Phyllis Hattis, San Francisco
Private collection (acquired from the above in 1979)
Anon. sale: Sotheby’s, New York, 8 November 2001, lot 257
Acquired at the above sale by the previous owner
Exhibited
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, circa 1945 (lent by Josef Müller)
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Petits Formats, 1978, no. 91
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Stilleben im 20. Jahrhundert, 1978 - 79, no. 53
San Francisco, Charles Campbell Gallery, Master Drawings: European and American, 1979, no. 47
Literature
Phyllis Hattis, ‘Zu den Bildern in der ‘Schanzmühle,’ in Du, August 1978, illustrated in a photograph
of the Müller collection p. 51
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