- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1978.488
- People
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Fernand Léger, French (Argentan (Orne), France 1881 - 1955 Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
- Title
- Study for "The Card Players"; verso: The Wrecked Airplane
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Dessin pour "la partie de carte"; verso: Abstraction
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1916-1917
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/296026
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Graphite and black and brown wash on white wove paper; verso: watercolor and graphite
- Dimensions
- actual: 56.5 x 38 cm (22 1/4 x 14 15/16 in.)
- Provenance
- Private Collector, Ireland, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1978.
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift
- Copyright
- © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
- Accession Year
- 1978
- Object Number
- 1978.488
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Descriptions
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- Description
- Verso is horizontal.
- Publication History
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James Harper, Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2001), cat. no. 25, repr. in color (recto and verso), p. 16
Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2000-2001 (Cambridge, MA, 2002), verso repr. p. 37
- Exhibition History
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Cubism: Explorations and Adaptations, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 09/18/1982 - 10/26/1982
Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/19/2001 - 08/12/2001
Fernand Léger: Contrasts of Forms, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/14/2007 - 06/10/2007
HAA 10 Survey Course: The Western Tradition, Art Since the Renaissance, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/09/2008 - 03/02/2008
HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 08 Rotation 1), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/13/2008 - 10/19/2008
HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 09 Rotation 1), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/02/2009 - 10/12/2009
Modern Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2013 - 06/01/2013
32Q: 1300 Early Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2021 - 03/28/2022
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