Le Disque dans la Ville (The Disk in the City)
Fernand Léger, French, 1881 - 1955
1920
Ink and gouache on paper
Sheet: 12 1/4 × 9 3/4 in. (31.1 × 24.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Elizabeth E. Craig, Class of 1944W
D.2002.30.3
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in ink, lower right: F. LEGER / 20; inscribed, in ink, on reverse, top left: le disque dans la ville
Course History
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2012
ENGL 53, Twentieth Century British Fiction: 1900 to WWII, Brenda Silver, Spring 2013
SART 15, Drawing I, Gerald Auten, Spring 2012
ARTH 16.2, Picasso: The Vollard Suite, Michael R. Taylor, Fall 2013
THEA 90, Contemporary Practices in U.S. Theater, Laurie Cherba Kohn, Fall 2013
WRIT 5, The Waste Land, Before and After, Melissa Zeiger, Fall 2013
Exhibition History
Cubism and Its Legacy, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 17-December 20, 2013.
Cubism: From Advanced Art History Seminar to Museum Installation, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 28, 2004-February 20, 2005.
European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30, 2008-March 8, 2009.
Rococo to Modernism: European Drawings and Watercolors from the Permanent Collection and Dartmouth's Alumni, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 30-May 30, 2004.
The Decade of Modernism: Selections from 1910-1919, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 11-July 20, 2003.
The Expanding Grid, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 7-August 27, 2012.
Publication History
T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, pp. 200-201, ill. p.201, no. 127.
Provenance
Perls Galleries, New York; sold to Elizabeth E. and J. William Craig, Jr., Dayton, Ohio, March 26, 1956; given to present collection, 2002.
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