A small town in northwestern France is getting a $1.5 million museum dedicated to Fernand Léger, the giant of Cubist abstraction, and one of his earliest friends, the lesser-known painter André Mare.
IL Y A LE CHANT des cigales dans les pins du grand parc paysager crée par Henri Fisch, la stature rassurante des cyprès, la buvette sous une tonnelle où l'on peut grignoter de délicieux plats ...
The French artist Fernand Léger’s name might not be the first that comes to mind when thinking about Cubists or Dadaists, yet he was a central figure in exploring the boundaries of these movements ...
A lost Fernand Léger painting has reappeared after more than a century of being hidden behind another canvas. The work, an unnamed piece from the “Smoke over the Rooftops” series (1911–12), was ...
Does the name Nadia Khodossievitch-Léger ring a bell? She has a Wikipedia page, but her second husband, the French artist Fernand Léger, has a much longer one. Wikipedia may not be a reliable ...
Le chantier se repère de loin quand on arrive au cimetière de Gif-sur-Yvette (Essonne). Un chapiteau bleu a été disposé au-dessus de la tombe de Fernand Léger pour permettre à la restauratrice, Astrid ...
To look at early-20th century artists’ conceptualizations of machines and technology is to be astonished, in a very particular way, by how thoroughly transformative the shift from mechanical to ...
Composition aux Cinq Feuilles is an ink on paper drawing by Fernand Léger, executed in 1927. Though many of Léger's paintings celebrate modern city life and depict machine-made objects, in the late ...
Signed with the artist's initials 'F. L' lower right; This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of Fernand Léger works on paper currently being prepared by the Comité Léger, ...