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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE GERMAN COLLECTION
Fernand Léger (1881-1955)
La balalaïka
Details
Fernand Léger (1881-1955)
La balalaïka
signed and dated ’53 F. LEGER’ (lower right); signed, dated and inscribed ‘LA BALAÏKA F. LEGER 53’ (sic.; on the reverse)
oil on canvas
21 5/8 x 15 in. (55 x 38 cm.)
Painted in 1953
La balalaïka
signed and dated ’53 F. LEGER’ (lower right); signed, dated and inscribed ‘LA BALAÏKA F. LEGER 53’ (sic.; on the reverse)
oil on canvas
21 5/8 x 15 in. (55 x 38 cm.)
Painted in 1953
Provenance
Galerie Louis Carré, Paris.
Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1986.
Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1986.
Literature
G. Bauquier, I. Hansma & C. Lefrebvre dy Preÿ, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, 1952-1953, Paris, 2013, no. 1565, p. 168 (illustrated p. 169).
Exhibited
Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Meister des XX. Jahrhunderts, April- July 1987, p. 78 (illustrated p. 79).
Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Fernand Léger, Schlüsselwerke, April - June 1990, p. 92 (illustrated p. 93).
Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Fernand Léger, Schlüsselwerke, April - June 1990, p. 92 (illustrated p. 93).
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