About the Artwork
Rimbaud
1948
Fernand Léger
1881-1955
French
Unknown
Watercolor on heavy white wove paper
Sheet: 13 1/4 × 10 1/4 inches (33.7 × 26 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, and Walter Buhl Ford II Fund
68.244
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Markings
Signed, in black pen and ink, lower right: F.L. 48
Inscribed, in pen and black ink, lower center: A. RIMBAUD Inscribed, in blue ballpoint pen, lower center, verso: Cette goache originale de Fernand Léger | excutée pour Les Illuminations de | Rimbaud, m'en été cédée par l'artiste | en décembre 1948 | Louis Grosclause, éditeur [stamp] | Grosclaude [signature] Inscribed, in graphite pencil, upper left, verso: P-372
Provenance
J.L. Hudson Gallery (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1968-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Fernand Léger, Rimbaud, 1948, watercolor on heavy white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, and Walter Buhl Ford II Fund, 68.244.
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