Artist Monograph

Léon Gischia, French

French, 1903–1991

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	3	50%
Medium (30–100 cm)	3	50%

Range: 15.4 cm → 43.0 cm (largest side)

French Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 6 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Frontispiece from THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE Illustrated Book Acc. 840.1964.1	1944		irreg. composition 9 1/4 x 7 1/4" (23.5 x 18.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Louis E. Stern Collection
Pictorial initial L (folio 6) from THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE Illustrated Book Acc. 840.1964.2	1944		composition 6 7/8 x 3 1/4" (17.4 x 8.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Louis E. Stern Collection
Plate (folio 7) from THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE Illustrated Book Acc. 840.1964.3	1944		irreg. composition 12 5/16 x 8 3/4" (31.3 x 22.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Louis E. Stern Collection
Plate (folio 9) from THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE Illustrated Book Acc. 840.1964.4	1944		irreg. composition 12 3/8 x 8 3/4" (31.4 x 22.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Louis E. Stern Collection
Tailpiece (folio 10 verso) from THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE Illustrated Book Acc. 840.1964.5	1944		irreg. composition 5 1/2 x 6 1/16" (14 x 15.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Louis E. Stern Collection
The Phoenix and the Turtle Illustrated Book Acc. 840.1964.1-5	1944	Illustrated book with five woodcuts (including initial and head and tailpieces)	page 16 15/16 x 12 7/8" (43 x 32.7 cm) Prints: various dimensions. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Louis E. Stern Collection