Photo © Nadeau's Auction Gallery — view this lot on Nadeau's Auction Gallery ↗Architectural Composition, 1950
Oil · Canvas
Nadeau's Auction Gallery · Sep 12, 2026Result not publishedAfter the artist
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Auction result
Composition
Fernand Léger (French, 1881–1955) · 1952
CHF 27,000 hammer
≈ $29,176≈ £21,089≈ €24,803
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- Medium
- Watercolor · Works on paper all watercolor results →As published: “Watercolour, gouache, ink and pencil”
- Signed / inscribed
- Monogrammed
- Category
- Watercolors
- Dimensions
- 33.5 x 25/17 cm (representation in the form of a trapezium); 50 x 32.8 cm, sheet size
- Auction house
- Kornfeld
- Sale
- Auction 274: Live Auction - Part 1 (274)
- Date
- September 16, 2021
- Location
- Bern, Switzerland
- Lot
- 393
- Estimate
- CHF 35,000 – — (≈ $37,821) (≈ £27,337) (≈ €32,153)
- Source
- Auction house kornfeld.ch ↗Retrieved Sep 25, 2026
Provenance (4)
- Private collection France
- Auction Tajan, Monaco, 2.8.2001, cat. no. 43
- Auction Hôtel de Ventes de Monte-Carlo, Monaco, 23.3.2014, cat. no. 36
- Private collection Europe
Literature (1)
- Catalogue raisonné: Confirmation of authenticity by Irus Hansma, Paris, dated 26 June 2014, copy available
As published by Kornfeld.
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