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Fernand Léger
(French, 1881 - 1955)
Composition à la plante verte
1939
Oil on canvas
38¼ x 51¼ inches / 97 x 130 cm
Signed and dated lower right: F. LEGER 39
Provenance
Studio of the artist
Collection Galerie Maeght, Paris
Private collection, New York
Exhibited
Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin, Fernand Léger, 24 October 1980 - 7 January 1981, no. 89, illustrated in colour p. 371
Biot, Musée National Fernand Léger, Hommage a Fernand Léger 1881 - 1955: Exposition du Centenaire,
29 May - 28 September 1981, no. 77, illustrated
Buffalo, Albright Knox Gallery, Fernand Léger, 15 January - 28 February 1982, no. 54, illustrated in colour p.118;
this exhibition travelled to Montreal, Musée des Beaux Arts, 12 March - 18 April 1982 and Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts,
19 May - 4 July 1982
Paris, Galerie Adrien Maeght, Fernand Léger, June - September 1986, illustrated in colour p. 19
(entitled Nature morte à la plante verte)
(probably) Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Fernand Léger: Selected Works from a Private Collection, March - May 1994
Literature
Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue Raisonné de l’oeuvre peint 1938 - 1943, Paris,
Adrien Maeght Éditeur, 2003, no.1058, illustrated in colour p.127
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