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Les saltimbanques by Fernand Léger — VisualArtsDB

Les saltimbanques

Les saltimbanques

1940

Medium: Charcoal, with stumping, erasing, scraping, and wetting on pink wove paper, altered to a tan tone, squared with charcoal for transfer
Dimensions: 107.1 × 90.5 cm (42 3/16 × 35 11/16 in.)
Genre: charcoal
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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drawings (visual works)plant materialprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)charcoal

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