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.

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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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