Fernand Léger. Woman with a Book. 1923 | MoMA
The smooth surfaces of this volumetric woman, bunch of flowers, and book evoke mechanical parts assembled together. The metallic sheen and tight geometry are stylistic treatments that recur in many of Léger’s paintings of this period.
Fernand Leger (MoMA Artist Series): Léger, Fernand, Lanchner, …
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FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955), Maquette pour couverture d’un …
Maquette pour couverture d’un livre. This works is the original maquette for the book Fernand Léger: Dessins de Guerre, 1915-1916 edited by Douglas Cooper and published by Berggruen & Cie. in 1956.In 1954, Cooper commissioned Léger to paint Trapeze Artists to cover a blank wall in the stairwell of his house, the Château de Castille at Argilliers in the south of France.
Woman with a Book, 1923 - Fernand Leger - WikiArt.org
Mar 5, 2012 · ‘Woman with a Book’ was created in 1923 by Fernand Leger in Cubism style. Find more prominent pieces of portrait at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Cahiers d’Art | Artists – Fernand Léger
The artist made a stencil from the gouache specially made for the cover of the 1949 magazine. Fernand Léger was present from the first issue in 1926 until the last year of publication, in 1960, when, in issue number 4, an article presenting the Musée Léger in Biot was published.
Fernand Léger (1881–1955) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
As an artist and art teacher, his examinations and interrogations of modernism played a significant role for future generations of twentieth-century artists. Born on February 4, 1881, in Normandy, France, Léger grew up in a family of cattle farmers who discouraged his interest in an artistic career. He worked as an architectural apprentice in ...
Fernand Léger and André Malraux, Lunes en papier, 1921
The Artist & The Book: 1860-1960, no. 163; From Manet to Hockney, cat. 64. Quarto (320 x 226mm). With seven woodcuts by Léger, comprising one on the cover plus three full-page, and three in text; illustrating the three chapters of Malraux's text …
Fernand Léger. Front cover from La Fin du monde filmée par l
Front cover from La Fin du monde filmée par l'ange de N.-D. (The End of the World Filmed by the Angel of Notre Dame). 1919. Blaise Cendrars (Frédéric Sauser).
Fernand Léger by Matthew Affron - Goodreads
Fernand Léger is the only major modern artist to choose modernity itself as his subject. From his early series "Contrastes de formes" of 1913-14--the first fully abstract works to emerge from Cubism--through his paintings of construction workers from the late 1940s and early 1950s, his enduring subject was the pulse and dynamism of everyday life.
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