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La fumée (Smoke)

© 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

La fumée (Smoke), 1912

oil on canvas

support: 36 1/4 x 28 3/4 inches (92.07 x 73.02 cm); framed: 46 3/4 x 39 1/2 x 3 inches (118.75 x 100.33 x 7.62 cm)

Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Room of Contemporary Art Fund, 1940

RCA1940:15

Currently On View

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Inscriptions

signature, dated / lower left / Léger / 12

Provenance

possibly collection Pierre Loeb;
sold to Mary Callery, Paris;
sold to Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, November 1938;
sold to the Albright Art Gallery, November 17, 1940

Class

Paintings (visual works)

Work Type

Oil painting (visual work)

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