About This Artwork
Fernand Léger
French, 1881-1955
Acrobats1940
Brush and black ink, with watercolor and gouache, over graphite on cream wove paper
603 x 487 mm
Signed recto, lower right, in pen and black ink: "F.L. 40"; below that, inscribed, in graphite: "6"
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, 1998.715
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
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.
Ownership History
Louis Carré (1897–1977), Paris. Sold by Georges Bonger Gallery to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, 1966; given to the Art Institute, 1998.