Artworks at TEFAF Maastricht 2023, Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd

Fernand Léger (1881-1955)
Une vache et un chapeau rouge

Painted in 1952

Oil on canvas 73.7 x 92 cm. (29 x 36 ¼ in.)

Signed and dated 'F. LEGER 52' (lower right); signed and dated again and titled 'une VACHE et un chapeau rouge F. LEGER 52' (on the reverse)

Collections

Galerie Louis Carré, Paris (by 1955)

Private collection E.J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam

Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, 1968

Sale: Christie’s, New York, 11 November 2021 [lot 67 C]

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Leverkusen, Städtisches Museum, Fernand Léger, February 1955, no. 8 (illustrated)

Literature

P.Descargues, Fernand Léger, Paris, 1955, p. 167 (illustrated; titled La chaise et la vache).

I.Hansma and C. Lefebvre du Preÿ, Fernand Léger, 1952-1953, Paris, 2013, vol. IX, p. 36, no. 1472(illustrated)