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WORKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF NANNETTE & HERBERT ROTHSCHILD
FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)
Les Constructeurs
Details
FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)
Les Constructeurs
signed with initials and dated 'F.L 51' (lower right)
gouache, brush and black ink and wash and charcoal over pencil on paper
29 3⁄8 x 21 ¼ in. (74.6 x 54 cm.)
Executed in 1951
Les Constructeurs
signed with initials and dated 'F.L 51' (lower right)
gouache, brush and black ink and wash and charcoal over pencil on paper
29 3⁄8 x 21 ¼ in. (74.6 x 54 cm.)
Executed in 1951
Provenance
Nannette and Herbert Rothschild, New York and Ossining (acquired from the artist, April 1953).
By descent from the above to the present owners.
By descent from the above to the present owners.
Exhibited
Providence, Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Herbert and Nannette Rothschild Collection, October-November 1966, no. 89.
Adelaide, The Art Gallery of South Australia; Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales and Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Fernand Léger, March-July 1976, no. 38 (illustrated).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Encounters with Modern Art, Works from the Rothschild Family Collections, September 1996-December 1997, p. 171, no. 45 (illustrated in color).
Adelaide, The Art Gallery of South Australia; Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales and Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Fernand Léger, March-July 1976, no. 38 (illustrated).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Encounters with Modern Art, Works from the Rothschild Family Collections, September 1996-December 1997, p. 171, no. 45 (illustrated in color).
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