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Le Siphon

© Estate of Fernand Léger / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / DACS, London

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Fernand Léger

French, 1881-1955

Le Siphon, 1924

oil on canvas

support: 25 5/8 x 18 1/8 inches (65.0875 x 46.0375 cm); framed: 35 3/4 x 28 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches (90.8 x 71.44 x 6.99 cm)

Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Bunshaft, 1977

1977:29

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Inscriptions

signature, undated / lower right / F. LÉGER

inscription / reverse, upper left / NATURE-MORTE / 24 / F. LEGER

Provenance

Etienne Bignou, Paris, by 1928;
[?] Léonce Rosenberg, Paris;
[?] Leo Castelli, New York;
Eugene V. Thaw (The New Gallery), New York, by 1955;
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1955;
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Bunshaft, New York, 1955;
donated by them to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, December 1977

Class

Paintings (visual works)

Work Type

Oil painting (visual work)

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