Femme au bouquet (Woman with Bouquet), 1921

  • Fernand Léger, French, 1881-1955

Graphite and watercolor on wove paper

  • Sheet: 14 × 10 inches (35.6 × 25.4 cm)

Bequest of Margaret Herz Demant

2018.132

Initialed, in pen and ink, lower right: F. L

Stamped in purple ink, verso: [illegible] CENTRALE [ partly illegible within circle- Paris customs stamp] stamped, verso, illegible: [rectangular stamp]

Inscribed, in graphite, verso upper right: 6 S 3 0 (or 6 8 3 0)

(Galerie Simon, Paris, France)

Mrs. Ella Odgen-Stuart, London, England

(Annely Juda Gallery, London, England)

(Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York, USA)

(Donald Morris Gallery, Inc., Birmingham, Michigan, USA)

1986, purchase by Margaret H. Demant (Huntington Woods, Michigan, USA)

2018-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Quarcoopome, Nii O. Extraordinary Eye, Extraordinary Gift: The Legacy of Margaret Herz Demant. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2018, pp. 20, 37.

Fernand Léger, Femme au bouquet (Woman with Bouquet), 1921, graphite and watercolor on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Margaret Herz Demant, 2018.132.