About the Artwork
Abstraction
1938
Fernand Léger
1881-1955
French
Unknown
Gouache and graphite pencil on grey paper
Sheet: 9 3/4 × 12 1/2 inches (24.8 × 31.8 cm) Framed: 14 3/4 × 18 3/4 × 1 1/2 inches (37.5 × 47.6 × 3.8 cm)
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Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller
41.117
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Markings
Signed and dated, in black ink, lower right: F.L. 8-38
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Provenance
Nelson A. Rockefeller
1941-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Museum Director's Choice (Project Outreach Traveling Exhibition). Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1970, pp. 28-29 (ill.).
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Fernand Léger, Abstraction, 1938, gouache and graphite pencil on grey paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 41.117.
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