About This Artwork

Noël-François Roger de La Fresnaye
French, 1885-1925

The White Leaves, 1920

Gouache, with touches of watercolor, over graphite on cream wove paper, laid down on tan card
252 x 202 mm (primary support); 300 x 249 mm (secondary support)
Signed lower right, in pen and black ink: "R de la Fresnaye"
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Winston, 1954.1310

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Galerie de Berri, 1951.

New York, Albert Loeb and Krugier Gallery, "Roger de la Fresnaye: Watercolors and Drawings," October–November, 1967, cat. 32.

Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Museum of Cranbrook Academy of Art, "Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston Collection," November 8–25, 1951, cat. 22.

Publication History

Germain Seligman, Roger de la Fresnaye with a catalogue raisonné (London, 1969), p. 206, no. 332 (ill.).

Ownership History

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Winston, Michigan, by 1951 [Bloomfield Hills, Mich. 1951]; given to the Art Institute, 1954.