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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1964.60
People
Fernand Léger, French (Argentan (Orne), France 1881 - 1955 Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
Title
The Divers
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Les Plongeurs
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1943
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/213926

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
88.9 x 106.68 cm (35 x 42 in.)
framed: 93.2 x 112 x 10.2 cm (36 11/16 x 44 1/8 x 4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Fernand Léger; to Mr. and Mrs. Josep Luis Sert, Cambridge, Massachusetts, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1964.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Josep Lluís Sert
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Accession Year
1964
Object Number
1964.60
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, p. 64, fig. 56, ill. (b/w)
  • Sarah Williams Goldhagen, The Production of Locality in Josep Luis Sert's Peabody Terrace, Harvard Design Magazine (Fall 2005), p. 89, f. 14
  • Katia Baudin, ed., Fernand Léger Painting in Space, exh. cat., Museum Ludwig and Hirmer (Cologne and Munich, 2016), p. 221, fig. 243, ill. (color); p. 304, fig. 341 (installation shot)

Exhibition History

  • Josep Lluís Sert: Architect to the Arts II, Sert Gallery, Cambridge, 09/13/2003 - 12/14/2003
  • Fernand Léger: Contrasts of Forms, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/14/2007 - 06/10/2007
  • Fernand Léger: Painting in Space, Museum Ludwig, Köln, 04/09/2016 - 07/03/2016

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