Acrobats

Prints and Drawings

1940

Fernand Léger
French, 1881-1955

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Fernand Léger
Title: Acrobats
Origin: France
Date: 1940
Medium: Brush and black ink, with watercolor and gouache, over graphite on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in pen and black ink: "F.L. 40"; below that, inscribed, in graphite: "6"
Dimensions: 603 × 487 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1998.715
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Paris, Galerie Georges Bongers, “Fernand Léger: Gouaches, Aquarelles et Dessins (1938–1950),” February 17–March 19, 1966, n. p., cat. 5, dated 1941.
Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, December 9, 1967–March 29, 1968.
Wellesley College Art Museum, “Two Women Collect,” April 2–25, 1976.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings,” June 11–September 7, 1999, cat. 27.

Louis Carré (1897–1977), Paris. Sold by Georges Bonger Gallery to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, 1966; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

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