Composition/Three Women

Prints and Drawings

1922

Fernand Léger
French, 1881–1955

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Fernand Léger
Title: Composition/Three Women
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 1922
Medium: Graphite, with smudging, on tan wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated recto, lower right, in graphite: "FL 22"; inscribed verso, upper center, in graphite: "Trois femmes 7213 4253 B R"; center left, in graphite: "8582 / " [illegible letters]; lower center, in graphite: "- 10 de large - / [first word illegible] sans filet"; lower right, in graphite: "[illegible ] / 50 x 38"
Dimensions: 30.8 × 43.4 cm (12 3/16 × 17 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Reference Number: 2022.82

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, 20th Century Drawings from Chicago Collections, 1973, n.p.
David and Alfred Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Alumni Who Collect: Drawings from the 16th Century to the Present, 1982, pp. 50–51, cat. 56, pl. 23.
Tokyo, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Fernand Léger, 1994, p. 166, cat. 90 (traveled).
Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 91 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection, Jan. 25–Oct. 12, 2020; traveled to New York, Morgan Library and Museum, Feb. 19–June 6, 2021 and Berkeley, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Aug. 4–Nov. 28, 2021.

Mr. and Mrs. David Thompson, Falmouuth, MA. Sold by James Goodman, New York, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, 1972 (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

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