
Art Institute of Chicago
The Red Table
Fernand Léger · 1920
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold through Galerie l’Effort Moderne, Paris [inventory no. 6793] to Walter S. Brewster (1872–1954) and Kate Brewster (née Lancaster; c. 1879–1947), Chicago, Nov. 1928 [invoice, Nov. 1928, copy in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1948.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Chicago, Arts Club, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings Privately Owned by Chicagoans, January 4–18, 1929, n. p., cat. 17.
- Chicago, Home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Brewster Special View for the benefit of Chicago Public School Art Society of the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Brewster, January 20–22, 1933, p. 10, cat. 48.
- Chicago, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Exhibition of Abstract Paintings by Four Twentieth Century Artists: Picasso, Braque, Gris, Léger, January 12–Feb. 2, 1934, cat. 24.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Fernand Léger, December 19, 1935–January 19, 1936, not in cat (organized by the Renaissance Society, University of Chicago).
- Chicago, The Arts Club, Origins of Modern Art, April 2–30, 1940, n. p., cat. 67.
- Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The Winterbotham Collection of 20th Century European Paintings, October 8–November 6, 1949, no cat.
- Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Age of Picasso and Matisse: Modern Masters from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 6, 2013–February 16, 2014, no cat. no.
Literature
Published references
- Arts Club of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings Privately Owned by Chicagoans, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club of Chicago, 1929), n. p., cat. 17, as La Table Rouge, n.d.
- Arts Club of Chicago, Origins of Modern Art, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club of Chicago, 1940), n. p., cat. 67, as La Table Rouge, n.d.
- Daniel Catton Rich, “The Kate L. Brewster Bequest,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 44, 3 (1950), p. 54, as Red Table, n.d.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 257, as The Red Table, 1920.
- A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth Century European Paintings (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 51, no. 2D10, as The Red Table, 1920.
- Georges Bauquier, Fernand Léger: Catalogue raisonné 1920–1924 (Paris: Adrien Maeght, 1992), p. 10, no. 196 (ill.), as La Table Rouge, 1920.
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