Women and Birds

Prints and Drawings

1940

Fernand Léger
French, 1881-1955

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Fernand Léger
Title: Women and Birds
Origin: France
Date: 1940
Medium: Pen and black inks, over graphite on tan laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in pen and black ink: "F. L. 40"
Dimensions: 634 × 487 mm
Credit Line: Wirt D. Walker Fund
Reference Number: 1966.64
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Jean Cassou and Jean Leymarie, Fernand Leger: Drawings and Gouaches (London, 1972), p. 143, no. 204 (ill.).
Peter de Francia, Fernand Léger (New Haven, Conn., 1983), pp. 167 and 170, fig. 7.54.
Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Vivre dans le vrai (Paris, 1987), pp. 159, 161, 361 (ill.).

Sold by B. C. Holland Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1966.

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