Boba

Details

Fernand Léger (1881-1955)
Boba
signed with initials and dated 'F.L. 38' (lower right)
gouache and brush and ink on card
image: 7 1/4 x 5 5/8 in. (18.3 x 14.3 cm)
card: 8 1/8 x 6 5/8 in. (20.8 x 16.8 cm.)
Executed in 1938

Provenance

Saidenberg Gallery, New York.
Ned L. Pines, New York; his estate sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 14 November 1990, lot 272.
Frederick Hudson Fine Art, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owners in 1998.

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Lot Essay

Ned L. Pines, a former owner of this work, was a passionate art collector for over fifty years. A collection that began with prints in the late 1920s, and would grow to include works on paper, oils and sculpture by many of the leading artists of the 20th Century. In the 1960s, encouraged by his wife Maxine, he bought works by artists including Joan Miró, Max Bill, Sam Francis, Willem de Kooning, Fernando Botero, Fernand Leger, Henry Moore, Alexander Calder and Eduardo Chillida.

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