Still Life on Round Table

Prints and Drawings

1920

Fernand Léger
French, 1881-1955

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Fernand Léger
Title: Still Life on Round Table
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.: Made 1920
Medium: Graphite on grayish-tan wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "F.L./20"
Dimensions: 38 × 30.7 cm (15 × 12 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Gecht Family
Reference Number: 2015.261
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Jacob Bean, “European Drawings from the Bareiss Collection,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 27:10 (June 1969), p. 438 (ill.).

Kassel, Germany, Kassel Alte Galerie, Museum Fridericianum, Orangerie, Documenta III, June 27–Oct. 5, 1964, p. 120, cat. 10, as Stilleben mit Krug.
Munich, Neue Staatgalerie München, “Sammlung Walter Bareiss,” Summer 1965, p. 30, cat. 9 (ill.).
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “European Drawings from the Bareiss Collection,” 1968.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Graphic Modernism: Selections from the Francey and Dr. Martin L. Gecht Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” Nov.15, 2003–Jan. 11, 2004, pp. 78–79, and 176, cat. 65 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper,” Mar. 24-Sept. 13, 2009, no cat.

Unknown art dealer, Paris [Munich 1965]. Sold by Richard Zinser, New York, to Walter Bareiss, Greenwich, Conn., 1950s-at least 1968 [date of acquisition according to a letter from Walter Bareiss dated Mar. 19, 2003; New York 1968]. Sold by Stefan Lennert Ltd. to Dr. and Mrs. Martin Gecht, 1988; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2015.

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