1964.60: The Divers
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1964.60
- People
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Fernand Léger, French (Argentan (Orne), France 1881 - 1955 Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
- Title
- The Divers
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Les Plongeurs
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1943
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/213926
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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88.9 x 106.68 cm (35 x 42 in.)
framed: 93.2 x 112 x 10.2 cm (36 11/16 x 44 1/8 x 4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Fernand Léger; to Mr. and Mrs. Josep Luis Sert, Cambridge, Massachusetts, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1964.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Josep Lluís Sert
- Copyright
- © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
- Accession Year
- 1964
- Object Number
- 1964.60
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Publication History
- Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, p. 64, fig. 56, ill. (b/w)
- Sarah Williams Goldhagen, The Production of Locality in Josep Luis Sert's Peabody Terrace, Harvard Design Magazine (Fall 2005), p. 89, f. 14
- Katia Baudin, ed., Fernand Léger Painting in Space, exh. cat., Museum Ludwig and Hirmer (Cologne and Munich, 2016), p. 221, fig. 243, ill. (color); p. 304, fig. 341 (installation shot)
Exhibition History
- Josep Lluís Sert: Architect to the Arts II, Sert Gallery, Cambridge, 09/13/2003 - 12/14/2003
- Fernand Léger: Contrasts of Forms, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/14/2007 - 06/10/2007
- Fernand Léger: Painting in Space, Museum Ludwig, Köln, 04/09/2016 - 07/03/2016
Verification Level
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