By 1928 - 1942, Paul Rosenberg, Paris, New York, probably acquired from the artist. Fernand Léger has 212 works online. Subject and objects: Portrait, Interior. Works by Fernand Léger at Sotheby's Upcoming Lots; Past Lots; Upcoming Lots. The city is an example of the ways in which Leger can be seen as the forerunner of Pop Art. We have identified these works in the following photos from our exhibition history. Description of the artwork «Mother and child» There is still no description of this artwork. Biography. I like 0 To the selection 1. Fernand Léger began creating glazed ceramics around 1950. 5 out of 5 stars (29) $ 30.00. Art form: Painting. Fernand Leger is known for Cubist painting-objects, machinery and figures, teaching. Art, for him, was not for art's sake - it was a visionary responsibility to coalesce meaning from the blurring of progress. Fernand Leger. Provenance research is a work in progress, and is frequently updated with new information. Fernand Léger (Joseph Fernand Henri Léger, 4 February 1881 – 17 August 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker.In his early works he created a personal form of cubism which he gradually changed into a more popular figurative style. Died 1955. Playing Card and Pipe (Carte et pipe) Fernand Léger (1881–1955) Tate. The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture Jun 20, 1945–Feb 13, 1946. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, One Hundred Forty-third Annual Report of the Trustees for the Fiscal Year July 1, 2012, through June 30, 2013 (2013), p. 46. Share. Home; Movies; TV Shows; People. He had visited the United States twice. Materials: Canvas. Fernand Léger was a French painter who made a unique contribution to Cubism. Feed. 1942 . Born 1881. Artworks. Léger was born on Feb. 4, 1881, in Argentan, France, a small town in Normandy. 209. The correlation between colour and music was an idea that interested many artists at the time. “I organize the opposition between colors, lines, and curves,” he said of painting. On 5 May 1913 Fernand Léger, one of the participants in “Salle 41” at the Salon des Indépendants of 1911, which gained acceptance for the Cubist movement, stated in a lecture delivered in Paris on “Les Origines de la peinture contemporaine et sa valeur representative” that “Pictorial realism is the simultaneous ordering of three great plastic components: Lines, Forms and Colours.” Fernand Léger (French, Argentan 1881–1955 Gif-sur-Yvette) ca. Date of creation: 1922. Technique: Oil. Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (French: [leʒe]; February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. Fernand Léger. Twitter. Facebook. The imagery of his mature paintings is concerned with the human figure in urban and technological environments. 1983 askART artist summary of Fernand Leger. Installation views. Fernand Léger (French, Argentan 1881–1955 Gif-sur-Yvette) 1911. Style of art: Art Nouveau. "Objects Promised to the Museum during the Year 2012–2013." Interested in selling a work by Fernand Léger? Fernand Léger was born in 1881, the same year both Picasso and Braque were born, in Normandy; his father was a substantial cattle grazer. Galerie Simon (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris. Fernand Léger (1881-1955) set himself an agenda to make abstract art relevant to its contemporary culture and to forge a non-elitist polemic for it. Fernand Leger Ma fleur tricolore French Vintage art Abstract art print French canvas art Fine art print Retro wall art gallery wall print FunkyCanvasPrinting. Fernand Léger Museum Biot facts. 1940–1955 'Starfish and Swimmers': Design for a Mosaic or Mural. Fernand Léger. If, in turn, the human form becomes an object, it can considerably liberate possibilities for the modern artist." Fernand Léger: Contrasts of Forms. Galerie Pierre Loeb (Galerie Pierre), Paris (1926). Department. Categories. LÉGER 22 LES trois femmes au bouquet' (on the reverse) oil on canvas 25 7/8 x 36 3/8 in. Fernand Leger. Leaves and Shell (Feuilles et coquillage) Fernand Léger (1881–1955) Tate. Léger is lesser known than Picasso, Chagall and Matisse, the three other painters having their dedicated museum in the riveria. Joseph Fernand Henri Léger was born on 4th February 1881, in Argentan, rural Normandy. Full Name: Joseph Fernand Henri Léger; Occupation: Painter, sculptor, filmmaker; Born: February 4, 1881 in Argentan, France; Died: August 17, 1955 in Gif-sur-Yvette, France; Spouses: Jeanne-Augustine Lohy (m. 1919-1950), Nadia Khodossevitch (m. 1952-1955) Key Accomplishments: Influenced by the industrial age and the two world wars, Fernand Leger developed … Get an Estimate. Léger wrote in 1945 that "the object in modern painting must become the main character and overthrow the subject. Six Designs for Abstract Wall Decorations. Painting, 1922, 171×240 cm. 5 out of 5 stars (221) $ 10.04. Fernand Léger. Participates in the 26th Biennale in Venice. Discuss. In 1900 he moved to Paris, where he worked as an architectural draftsman and studied briefly at the École des Beaux-Arts. Twitter. Joseph Fernand Henri Léger was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. At the turn of the century Paris was the acknowledged center of the international art world, a locus of extraordinary intellectual and creative vitality. He was an abstract painter before the War, in which he had a brilliant record. In April - an exhibition and lecture in the Kunsthalle in Bern; other exhibitions: Museum Antrib; the galleries of Bury and Louis Kara, Paris; Sydney Janis Gallery, New York. Because of the brightly colored, flat paintings of everyday objects he painted beginning in the 1930s, Fernand Léger is considered one of the forefathers of Pop Art. The French painter Fernand Léger (1881-1955) was one of the original cubists. Facebook. It was within this charged atmosphere that Fernand Léger began his career as a painter. Exhibitions. He wasn't encouraged to take up art even though he possessed a talent, he was raised by his family to take a worthwhile and valuable trade, just like his father whose occupation was a cattle dealer. Fernand Léger (French, Argentan 1881–1955 Gif-sur-Yvette) ca. About the artwork. Along with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, Léger crafted idiosyncratic methods of depicting three-dimensional objects in pictorial space. Femmes. Track updates on Arthive. Fernand was trained as an architectural draughtsman and later worked as a professional retoucher of photographs.