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Painting
Footed Goblet
Fernand Léger, (Argentan, France, 1881 – 1955, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
Léger, Fernand
France
1881 - 1955
Male
25 1/4 x 18 in. (64.1 x 45.7 cm)
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Oil
Oil
1924
1924
1924
1900-2000, 20th century, line, paintings, shape
Painting
1946.11
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Memorial Art Gallery
1/30/2001
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Watercolor
After the Flood (Après le déluge)
Fernand Léger, (Argentan, France, 1881 – 1955, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
Léger, Fernand
France
1881 - 1955
Male
25 3/8 x 19 15/16 in. (64.5 x 50.6 cm)
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Gouache
Gouache
1948
1948
1948
Watercolor
This drawing is a design for publisher Louis Grosclaude’s 1949 luxury edition of the 19th-century poet Arthur Rimbaud’s famous volume of prose poetry, "Les Illuminations." Grosclaude commissioned the well-known artist Fernand Léger to create 15 lithographs for the book.
"After the Flood," the opening poem, begins:
As soon as the idea of the Flood was finished,
A hare halted in the clover and the trembling flower bells, and said its prayer to the rainbow through the spider’s web.
Leger’s illustration reflects the notion of the day after the flood with a rapidly-drawn landscape: a shining sun, a rainbow, and trees and flowers rooted in a green ground. A man gazes on the scene with a detached, somewhat impenetrable expression. Many scholars consider Rimbaud’s dreamlike and visionary prose poems the foundation of modern European poetry. Léger’s symbolic and referential illustrations seem particularly fitting as complements.
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
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2000.34
item
Memorial Art Gallery
3/27/2001
2000.34DI1
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3/21/2002
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Print
Untitled
Fernand Léger, (Argentan, France, 1881 – 1955, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
Léger, Fernand
France
1881 - 1955
Male
22 1/16 x 14 15/16 in. (56 x 38 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1950
1950
1950
Print
1991.48
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Memorial Art Gallery
5/3/2001
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Textiles
Yellow No. 9
Fernand Léger, (Argentan, France, 1881 – 1955, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
Léger, Fernand
France
1881 - 1955
Male
90 x 45 in. (228.6 x 114.3 cm)
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Wool
Wool
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Textiles
1970.16
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Memorial Art Gallery
5/12/2001
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6/30/2009
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5/4/2018
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