Fernand Léger, L'Équipe

Property from a Private Collector
Fernand Léger
1881 - 1955
L'Équipe

Signed with the initials F.L and dated 44 (lower right)
Gouache on tracing paper laid down on card
14 by 20 in. (35.6 by 50.8 cm)
Framed: 20 1/4 by 27 in. (51.4 by 68.5 cm)
Executed in 1944.

Condition Report:
Executed on tracing paper, laid down on cardboard. Apart from some light creasing to the sheet and some flaking in the white pigment, this work is in overall good condition.

Provenance:
Louis Carré, New York
Doris Rubin, New York (acquired from the above in 1966 and sold by the estate: Sotheby's, New York, May 8, 2008, lot 161)
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale and sold: Sotheby's, Paris, June 3, 2015, lot 18)
Private Collection, Europe (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above