- Artist
- Fernand Léger 1881–1955
- Original title
- Arbres
- Medium
- Graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 325 x 245 mm
framed: 530 x 433 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Bequeathed by Elly Kahnweiler 1991 to form part of the gift of Gustav and Elly Kahnweiler, accessioned 1994
- Reference
- T06801
Display caption
Léger made a great many drawings and gouaches, the majority of which were intended as highly resolved studies for paintings. ‘I do a lot of preparatory work’, he said, ‘but when I attack it I am eighty per cent certain. I know where I am going.’ This drawing is one of many landscapes from the period 1922-3 that combine urban and natural forms. It is closely related to an oil painting entitled The Bridge, which Léger made later that year.
Gallery label, March 2008
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