Lot Essay
This tapestry was based on the 1938-1943 painting, L'homme à la nature morte (Bauquier, no. 1004).
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PROPERTY OF THE SEAGRAM COLLECTION
After a design by Fernand Leger (1881-1955)
L'homme à la pastèque
Details
After a design by Fernand Leger (1881-1955)
L'homme à la pastèque
with signature 'F. LEGER' and monogram of the Cavalaire Durrbach atelier (in the weave lower right)
hand-woven Aubusson wool tapestry
89¾ x 113 in. (228 x 287 cm.)
L'homme à la pastèque
with signature 'F. LEGER' and monogram of the Cavalaire Durrbach atelier (in the weave lower right)
hand-woven Aubusson wool tapestry
89¾ x 113 in. (228 x 287 cm.)
Provenance
Petro-Nelly van Duesburg, Meudon, France.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1958.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1958.
Exhibited
Southampton, New York, The Parrish Art Museum, Contemporary French Tapestries, July-August 1965, no. 8.
New York, Charles E Slatkin Galleries, Inc.; Syracuse, Everson Museum of Art; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor; San Antonio, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute; Hanover, New Hampshire, Hopkins Center Galleries, Dartmouth College; Allentown Art Museum; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Portland Art Museum; Kansas City, Missouri, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Akron Art Institute; Baltimore Museum of Art; Des Moines Art Center; Lincoln, Massachuessets, De Cordova Museum; Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego; Louisville, Kentucky, J.B. Speed Museum; Seattle Art Museum; Providence, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, and Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Contemporary French Tapestries, September 1965-December 1967, p. 8 (illustrated; titled Man with Watermelon).
New York, Charles E Slatkin Galleries, Inc.; Syracuse, Everson Museum of Art; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor; San Antonio, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute; Hanover, New Hampshire, Hopkins Center Galleries, Dartmouth College; Allentown Art Museum; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Portland Art Museum; Kansas City, Missouri, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Akron Art Institute; Baltimore Museum of Art; Des Moines Art Center; Lincoln, Massachuessets, De Cordova Museum; Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego; Louisville, Kentucky, J.B. Speed Museum; Seattle Art Museum; Providence, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, and Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Contemporary French Tapestries, September 1965-December 1967, p. 8 (illustrated; titled Man with Watermelon).