Abstraction

Artist Fernand Léger (French, 1881 - 1955)

Date1926

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions51 1/4 x 36 1/2 in. (130.2 x 92.7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Robert Allerton through Friends of the Academy, 1945 (311.1)

Object number311.1

DescriptionArrangment of vertical and horizontal bands, varying in length and width arranged around white ovoid shape suspended from black vertical rectangle with curved shape below resembling shoulder with pendant arm. Except for ovoid and curved shape (white verging to gray) all areas are of one solid color. Prominent areas: upper left, vertical band of orange-red, horizontal blue rectangle below, orange square bottom. Right: horizontal band, red-orange below, long blue vertical and horizontal band left. . . . .curved red-orange form to right; square “U” shaped orange band at bottom at bottom. Subsidiary areas: grays, white, cream, black. Frame: double, white wood.

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