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Composition with Vine
Composition with Vine

Composition with Vine

Date1929
Maker Fernand Léger French, 1881-1955
Label TextAround 1910 Fernand Léger was one of the first artists to embrace modernist concepts of abstraction and the mechanical. His work shifted in 1926 to strange still-lifes that mixed figurative, arboreal, and tabletop motifs. As he said at the time, "At this moment, in the spirit of the modern artist, a cloud, a machine, a tree are elements of the same interest as personages or figures."
Object number65.166
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Bon Marche furniture galleries, Nov. 4 -10, 1962. Washington, D.C., Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 20th Century Paintings from Washington State Collections, 1966. Honolulu, Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Leger, 1969. Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma Art Museum, Inaugural Exhibition, 1971. Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum, The Thirties Decade: American Artists and Their European Contemporaries, Oct. 10 - Nov. 28, 1971. Introduction by William A. McGonagle. Essay by Allen Porter. Cat. no. 130. Vancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver Art Gallery, The Seattle Art Museum Lends, Mar. 13 - Apr. 11, 1976. No cat. no. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, International Abstraction: Making Painting Real, May 2, 2003 - Feb. 29, 2004. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Modern in Europe: Featuring Selections from the Collection of Gladys and Sam Rubinstein, Nov. 5, 2004 - Apr. 17, 2005.
Credit LineGift of Sidney and Anne Gerber
Dimensions35 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. (90.2 x 64.8 cm)
MediumOil on canvas
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1949
Object number: 65.167
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1942
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1921
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