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Artworks
Fernand Léger French, 1881-1955
Composition aux Trois Profils, 1937Oil on canvas35 x 51 1/4 inches
89 x 130 cm
Framed: 37 x 53 1/4 x 2 inches
94 x 135.3 x 5.1 cmTitle: (Composition with Three Profiles)Title: (Composition with Three Profiles)Provenance
Galerie Simon, Paris
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, n. 0766/6614
Carl-Eric Bjorkegren, Stockholm
Private Collection, 1991
Sale: Sotheby’s London, 20 June 1992, lot 58
Private Collection, 1992
Private Collection
Exhibitions
1938 Prague, Galerie S V, Pariz 1938, n. 32
1946 Stockholm, Svesk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Peintres de Paris, n. 97
1952 Bern, Kunsthalle, Fernand Léger, n. 67
1954 London, Marborough Fine Art Ltd., Fernand Léger, paintings, drawings, lithographs, ceramics, n. 18
1958 Liège, Musée de l’Art Wallon, Léger, Matisse, Picasso, Miró, Laurens, Magnelli, Arp, Hartung, Jacobsen, n. 15, illustrated
1985 Paris, Galerie Louise Leiris, Fernand Léger, 55 oeuvres, 1913-1953, n. 39, p.
47, illustrated
2005 New York, Helly Nahmad Gallery, Fernand Léger, n. 20, pp. 68, 69, illustrated
2011 New York, Hammer Galleries, Modern Masters
2021 Palm Beach, Sotheby’s Palm Beach, Picasso to Rothko: European and American Masters in Dialogue
2026 San Francisco, CA, Berggruen Gallery, Defining the Century: Modern Visionaries from Picasso to Calder, September 10 – October 22, 2026
Literature
1952 Fernand Léger, Fernand Léger. Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, n. 67
1958 J. Cassou, L. Koenig et al., Léger, Matisse, Picasso, Miró, Laurens, Magnelli, Arp, Hartung, Jacobsen. Liège, Musée de l’Art Wallon, n. 15, illustrated
1965 F. Léger, Fonctions de La Peinture. Paris, Editions Gonthier, Bibliotheque Mediations, illustrated
1994 S. Fauchereau, Fernand Léger. New York, Rizzoli, n. 90, illustrated
1996 G. Bauquier, Fernand Léger, Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint (19321937), vol. V. Paris, Maeght Editeur, n. 965, pp. 278-279, illustrated
