About the Artwork
Metropolitan
between 1881 and 1955
Fernand Léger
1881-1955
French
Unknown
Watercolor with pen and black ink on heavy cream wove paper
Sheet: 13 3/8 × 10 3/16 inches (34 × 25.9 cm)
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Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Emery, Jr.
F77.24
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Markings
Signed, in black, lower right: F.L. 49
Inscribed, in graphite pencil, verso, lower center: Gouache originale de F. Leger, | pour les Illuminations de | Rimbaud in 1949 | [stamp in black ink: Louis Grosclaude editeur] | Grosclaude [signature] Inscribed, verso, upper center: 25 x 34 cm Inscribed, verso, upper right: P Inscribed, in pen and black ink, verso: 336
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Emery, Jr.
1977-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Fernand Léger, Metropolitan, between 1881 and 1955, watercolor with pen and black ink on heavy cream wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Emery, Jr., F77.24.
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