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Acrobats

A work made of brush and black ink, with watercolor and gouache, over graphite on cream wove paper.
© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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  • A work made of brush and black ink, with watercolor and gouache, over graphite on cream wove paper.

Date:

1940

Artist:

Fernand Léger
French, 1881-1955

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Fernand Léger

Title

Acrobats

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1940

Medium

Brush and black ink, with watercolor and gouache, over graphite on cream wove paper

Inscriptions

Signed recto, lower right, in pen and black ink: "F.L. 40"; below that, inscribed, in graphite: "6"

Dimensions

60.3 × 48.7 cm (23 3/4 × 19 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1998.715

Copyright

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

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