Le viaduc

Details

Fernand Léger (1881-1955)
Le viaduc
stamped 'F. LÉGER' (lower right); inscribed 'Teriade, La ville, Le viaduc' and stamped 'F.LÉGER' (on the reverse)
gouache, watercolour and black ink and pencil
175/8 x 255/8in. (44.8 x 65cm.)
Executed in 1954

Provenance

The artist's estate.
Marguerite Lang, Paris.
Jean-Pierre Selz, Paris.
Waddington Galleries, London.
Bodlay Gallery, New York.
Jacques Kaplan, New York.
David B. Findlay Galleries, New York.
Monique Berkeley, Kings Point, New York.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, 1973 (A9842).
Philipp J. Warren, Detroit.
Galerie Salis, Salzburg.

Exhibited

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Works on paper by 20th Century Masters, October-November 1974, no. 20.
Salzburg, Galerie Salis, Fernand Léger 1881-1955, 1990, no. 29.

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Lot Essay

This gouache is a study for one of the lithographs which appeared in the album "La Ville". Léger worked on this album during the last three years of his life, but was not able to complete it according to his original plan. The thirty works which he was able to finish, were published as original color lithographs by Tériade in 1958.

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