Study for the Portrait "Maud Dale"

1935

Fernand Léger

Artist, French, 1881 - 1955

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 26.9 x 19.4 cm (10 9/16 x 7 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.115.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Musée National Fernand Léger, Biot (from the artist's estate); (Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris); (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 10 October 1996, no. 82, as Study for the Portrait of Mrs. Chester Dale); purchased by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1980

  • Fernand Léger: 1881-1955, Staatlich Kunsthalle, Berlin, 1980-1981.

Bibliography

1952

  • Vallier, Dora. Carnet Inédit de Fernand Léger: Esquisses pour un Portrait. Paris, 1952.

1987

  • Bauquier, Georges. Fernand Léger: Vivre dans le Vrai. Paris, 1987: 241-246.

Inscriptions

by later hand, along bottom left edge in ink: (NoD.472 -5) étude pour un portrait.; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: 6 16622 30917

Wikidata ID

Q64561464

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