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Circus (Cirque)

Date:

1950

Artist:

Fernand Léger (French, 1881-1955)
published by Tériade Editeur (French, born Greece, 1897-1983)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Fernand Léger

Title

Circus (Cirque)

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1950

Medium

Book with seventy-two lithographs in black and color, loose and folded, on ivory wave paper and two lithographs on front and back covers, in slipcase

Dimensions

Slipcase: 44.4 × 33.9 × 4.5 cm (17 1/2 × 13 3/8 × 1 13/16 in.); Book: 42.5 × 32.8 × 3.3 cm (16 3/4 × 12 15/16 × 1 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg in memory of Bessie Kisloff Braude, Esq.

Reference Number

2014.481

Copyright

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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