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Composition (Study for "Nude Model in the Studio")

1912
Not on view
This work is one of the largest and most highly finished sketches for a painting roughly twice its size, Nude Model in the Studio (1912–13; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York). Léger uses a series of curves to depict the volumes of a female nude standing in three-quarter profile, with her right arm bent behind her head. Léger considered this drawing important enough to exhibit at the annual Salon des Indépendants in spring 1913.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Composition (Study for "Nude Model in the Studio")
  • Artist: Fernand Léger (French, Argentan 1881–1955 Gif-sur-Yvette)
  • Date: 1912
  • Medium: Oil paint, opaque watercolor, and ink over graphite on brown paper
  • Dimensions: 25 1/8 × 19 in. (63.8 × 48.3 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection, Gift of Leonard A. Lauder, 2016
  • Object Number: 2016.237.17
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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