Composition sur fond bleu (Composition on Blue Ground)
Fernand Léger, French, 1881 - 1955
1942-1944
Oil on canvas
Overall: 49 7/8 × 43 3/4 in. (126.7 × 111.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Wallace K. Harrison, Class of 1950H
P.964.12
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower right: 42-44 / F. LEGER; signed, dated, and inscribed, on reverse: Composition sur / Fond Bleu / F. LEGER.42-44
Exhibition History
Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 26, 1975-January 4, 1976.
Contemporary Art from the College Collection, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 31-September 10, 1972.
Fernand Leger, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, January 13-February 10, 1967; White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, February 26-March 19, 1967; University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, April 5-26, 1967; Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences, Savannah, Georgia, May 12-June 2, 1967; Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 15-October 8, 1967; Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York, October 18-November 8, 1967; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, January 12-February 11, 1968, no. 16.
Thank You, Wallace K. Harrison, Jaffe-Friede Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 16-April 28, 1985.
Publication History
Jacquelyn Bass, Thank You, Wallace K. Harrison, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1985, p.44, no.20.
Georges Bauquier, Fernand Leger: Catalogue raisonne, 1938-1943, Volume 6, Paris: Adrien Maeght Editeur, 1998, pp.154-155, ill. p. 155, Catalogue no. 1078
Provenance
Possibly from the artist; to Ellen Hunt Milton Harrison (1903-1995) and Wallace K. Harrison (1895-1981); given to present collection, 1964.
Catalogue Raisonne
George Bauquier, Fernand Leger: Catalogue raisonne, 1938-1943, Volume 6, No. 1078
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