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Woman with a Cactus 1952 20th Century 17 1/8 in. x 14 1/4 in. (43.5 cm x 36.2 cm) Fernand Léger (Argentan, 1881 - 1956) Object Type: Drawing Medium and Support: gouache on paper Credit Line: Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Orton, Houston, Texas. 1982.021 Accession Number: 1982.021 Comments: For Leger, color was one of the basic elements of nature, "a raw material indispensible to life, like water and fire." The motif of a woman holding a plant can be traced back early in Leger's career, but only in a few drawings and gouaches done in the fifties does one sense a touch of the biomorphic Surrealism seen here.

Keywords:

• drawing
• French
• portrait
• Abstraction
• watercolor

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• Introduction to Collection: Drawings
• Masterworks: Drawing

Keywords:

• Artist:European:French
• Class:Fine Arts:drawing
• Class:Fine Arts:drawing:watercolor
• Style:Abstraction
• Subject:figure:portrait

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