Cyclist, from Cirque (Circus) by Fernand Leger
Fernand Léger, French, 1881 - 1955
1950
Color lithograph on wove paper
183/300
Sheet: 16 1/2 × 12 1/2 in. (41.9 × 31.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.960.83.3
Publisher
E. Tériade, Editions de la Revue Verve, Paris
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on stone: Je ne te demande pas si ta granmere fait du velo; inscribed, in graphite, lower left corner: 183/300
Exhibition History
Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August-15 September, 1973.
Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 25, 1975-January 4, 1976.
Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, January 1974.
Provenance
Ferdinand Roten Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland; sold to present collection, 1960.
Catalogue Raisonne
L. Saphire, Fernand Leger: The Complete Graphic Work, New York, 1987, no. 105.
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