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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Minneapolis, Minn., Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Paintings from the Cummings Collection, January 14–March 7, 1965, n. p.

Washington D. C., National Gallery of Art, Selections from the Nathan Cummings Collection, June 28–September 11, 1970, p. 58, cat. 43, as Reclining Figure (ill.); traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 1–September 7, 1971.

Laren, The Netherlands, Singer Museum, The Sara Lee Collection: An Impressionist Legacy, October 18, 1997–February 15, 1998.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Monet to Moore: The Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation, March 13–May 28, 2000, pp. 74–77, cat. 20 (ill.); traveled to the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, June 11–August 22, 1999, the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, September 10–November 7, 1999, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, November 19, 1999–January 23, 2000, and, Singapore Museum of Art, April 1–May 30, 1999.

Publication History

Douglas Cooper, “Cummings Event in Washington,” Art News 69:4 (Summer 1970), p. 36 (ill.).

Frank Elgar, “Le Primitif des Temps Modernes,” XX Siècle (1971), p. 32 (ill.).

Jean Cassou and Jean Leymarie, Fernand Leger, Dessins et Gouaches (Paris: Chêne, 1972), p. 73, fig. T 22.

The Art Quarterly II:1 (Winter 1979), n.p. (ill.).Claude Laugier and Michèle Richet, Léger: oeuvres de Fenand Léger (1881–1955) (Paris: Collections du Musée National d’Art Moderne, 1981), p. 51, fig. b.

Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné 1920-1924 (Paris: Adrien Maeght, 1992), pp. 210–211, no. 320 (ill.).

Richard R. Brettell, An Impressionist Legacy: The Collection of Sara Lee Corporation (New York: Abbeville Press, 1993), p. 94–95 (ill.).

Della de LaFuente, “Art Institute scores in Sara Lee giveaway,” Chicago Sun Times (June 3, 1998), p. 7 (ill.).

Judith H. Dobrzynski, “Sara Lee is Donating Impressionist Art to 20 U. S. Museums,” The New York Times (June 3, 1998), p. B8.

Richard Brettell, Monet to Moore: The Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999), pp. 74–77, cat. 20 (ill.).

Ownership History

Galerie Simon, Paris. Gimpel and Hanover. Anne Rotzler, Switzerand. Galerie Beyeler, Basel. Nathan Cummings (1896–1985), Chicago, by 1965 [Minneapolis 1965]. Beadleston Fine Art, Inc., New York, by 1979 [according to Art Quarterly 1979]. Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, 1981. Private Collection, United Stattes. Consolidated Foods Corporation (later Sara Lee Corporation), 1980; given to the Art Institute, 1999.