The Divers

Prints and Drawings

1941

Fernand Léger
French, 1881-1955

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Fernand Léger
Title: The Divers
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1941
Medium: Pen and brown and black ink, with brush and brown and black ink, over graphite on cream wove tracing paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in pen and brown ink: "F. L. 41"
Dimensions: 30.2 × 45 cm (11 15/16 × 17 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Tiffany and Margaret Blake
Reference Number: 1945.28
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

M.-A. Couturier, Fernand Léger: La Forme Humaine dans l’Espace (Montreal, 1945), fig. 37.
The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin XL:3 (March 1946), p. 29 (ill.).
Joseph Meder, The Mastery of Drawing, translated by Winslow Ames (New York, 1978), 1:444, 2:279, fig. 285.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Old and New,” 1946, p. 19, cat. 32, pl. XXXII.
The Vancouver Art Gallery, “The Nude in Art,” November 3–29, 1964, n.p., cat. 95.
Chicago, Arts Club, “Drawings 1916/1966,” February 28–April 11, 1966, n.p., cat. 59 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake,” April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 47 (ill.).
Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Drawings from The Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago,” April 23–May 14, 1972.

Sold by the artist to the Art Institute, 1945.

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