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Contraste de formes, 1914

Fernand Léger

On view at K20

Information

Artist

Fernand Léger

1881
Argentan (Normandie), Frankreich

1955
Gif-sur-Yvette (Seine-et-Oise), Frankreich

Work data

Material/Technique

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

Image: 82,5 × 65,5 × 2,3 cm
Frame: 101,3 × 85,5 × 8,3 cm

Signature

Bez. u.r.: "F.L 14"

Accession Number

0127

Catalogue Raisonné

Bauquier 68

Acquisition year

1962

Provenance

Little is known about the whereabouts of Fernand Léger’s painting “Contraste de formes” after its creation in 1914. Furthermore, there is no evidence of any exhibitions at which the work was shown, nor are there any known mentions in art or similar publications. Only a label on the back of the work suggests that it was owned by Sami Tarica, owner of Galerie Tarica in Paris. In 1960, Galerie Beyeler in Basel bought the painting from Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, a partner in Galerie Louise Leiris. Just two years later, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen purchased the painting “Contraste de formes” from Galerie Beyeler for its holdings.

Credit line

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Exhibitions
  • Fernand Léger 1911-1924. Der Rhythmus des modernen Lebens/ Fernand Léger 1911-1924. Le rythme de la vie moderne, 28.5.-26.11.1994, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg/Kunstmuseum Basel
  • Unser 20. Jahrhundert - Meisterwerke von Picasso bis Beuys, 14.7.-28.10.2000, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
  • Die andere Sammlung. Hommage an Ernst und Hildy Beyeler, 18.8.2007-5.1.2008, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen
  • Silent Revolution - Eine neue Sammlungspräsentation, 26.2.-12.6.2010, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf
  • Tête-à-Tête. Léger - Laurens, 22.6.-3.11.2012, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden
  • Mondriaan en het kubisme, Parijs 1912-1914 / Mondrian and Cubism, 24.1.-10.5.2014, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
  • museum global. Mikrogeschichten einer ex-zentrischen Moderne/museum global. Microhistories of an Ex-centric Modernism, 9.11.2018-9.3.2019, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Grabbeplatz
Tags
abstrakt geometrisch Klassische Moderne Kubismus
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