Face and Flower

Prints and Drawings

1949

Fernand Léger
French, 1881-1955

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Fernand Léger
Title: Face and Flower
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.: 1949
Medium: Brush and black ink on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in brush and black ink: "F. L. 49"
Dimensions: 50 × 65 cm (19 11/16 × 25 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Samuel P. Avery Endowment
Reference Number: 1952.1152
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Contemporary Drawings from 12 Countries,” 1945–1952, 1952, p. 19, cat. 159.

Galerie Louis Carré, Paris. Sold to the Art Institute, 1952.

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