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Le Village dans la forêt (The Village in the Forest)

© Estate of Fernand Léger / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / DACS, London

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© Estate of Fernand Léger / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / DACS, London

Image downloads are for educational use only. For all other purposes, please see our Obtaining and Using Images page.

Fernand Léger

French, 1881-1955

Le Village dans la forêt (The Village in the Forest), 1914

oil on burlap

support: 29 1/8 x 36 5/8 inches (73.98 x 93.03 cm); framed: 40 x 47 1/8 x 2 7/8 inches (101.6 x 119.7 x 7.3 cm)

Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Gift of A. Conger Goodyear, 1960

1960:4

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Inscriptions

inscription / back of fabric / Paysage No.1

signature, undated / back of fabric / F. Léger

Provenance

D. H. Kahnweiler, Paris (?);
Léonce Rosenberg, Paris, until 1932;
to A. Conger Goodyear, New York;
presented by Goodyear to the Albright Art Gallery, 1960

Class

Paintings (visual works)

Work Type

Oil painting (visual work)

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