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| | Acquavella: Fernand Léger |
 | | But Fernand Léger is not a mystic, he is a painter, simply a painter, and I am as pleased by his simplicity as by the solidity of his judgement. | | | For Léger was not only one of the great idealists among artists of our century, but a practical idealist at that: he wanted to see his ideals realized not only in his art but in the world around him, and he thought that his art could in some way change that world for the better. | | | Like his contemporaries Picasso and Braque, Léger was enormously affected by and indebted to the art of Cézanne, whom he saw as a transitional figure between traditional and modern painting. |
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http://www.acquavellagalleries.com/main/selectedcatalogue.cfm?catalog_id=54&lightup=2&artist_id=119
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| | Fernand Leger |
| | Fernand Léger (Argentan, 1881 - Gif-sur-Yvette, 1955) was an avant-garde artist committed to modernism. | | | Tying in with the exhibition will be a seminar on "Fernand Léger, different readings", in which leading specialists will discuss the artist’s life and work and his contributions to contemporary art. | | | This exhibition sets out to analyse Leger's artistic career, showing him not only as a painter and draughtsman but as an all-round artist who took classical parameters as the starting point for establishing the patterns of modernism. |
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http://www.undo.net/artinpress/1038006000.1037993478.html
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| | Fernand Leger Online |
| | Fernand Leger at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Tate Gallery, London, UK Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran | | | Fernand Leger at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Two Women, 1922 | | | Musée National Fernand Léger, Biot, France (in French) |
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http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/leger_fernand.html
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| | Fernand Leger |
| | Fernand Leger: A Painter in the City, by Serge Fauchereau. | | | Leger was one of the giants of French painting this century, whose influence has been almost as great as his reputation. | | | Fernand Leger: Catalogue Raisonne De L'Oeuvre Peint, 1938-1943, by Georges Bauquier. |
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http://www.artchive.com/artchive/L/leger.html
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| | Léger, Fernand on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Leger's popular mechanics.(artist Fernand Leger's life and art are explored)(Cover Story) | | | Fernand Leger.(Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York) |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/L/Leger-F1e.asp
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| | Alibris: Fernand Leger |
| | In his work, Fernand Leger combined elements of major 20th-century art movements like Cubism and abstraction, while forging a style that was distinctly his own. | | | One of the major painters of this century, Fernand Léger was early associated with Cubism. | | | by Léger, Fernand, and Cassou, Jean, and Leymarie, Jean |
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http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Fernand_Leger
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| | Fernand Leger Biography / Biography of Fernand Leger Main Biography |
| | The French painter Fernand Léger (1881-1955) was one of the original cubists. | | | The imagery of his mature paintings is concerned with the human figure in urban and technological environments. | | | It was within this charged atmosphere that Fernand Léger began his career as a painter. |
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http://www.bookrags.com/biography-fernand-leger
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| | Le Vase. by Fernand Leger, 1881-1955 |
| | It is also a key statement of his aesthetic ideas in the mid 1920’s; standing along with his major paintings of the same period it marks a moment of great significance in the development of European art. | | | He chose the medium of lithography at a moment when few artists were working in it and there was little market because he felt that the qualities of pure form, plane and colour could be best expressed through it. | | | That the actual production proved difficult, especially in a format which was as large as his paintings, is shown by comparisons of impressions. |
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http://www.williamweston.co.uk/pages/previous/single/347/156/all.html
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| | Leger |
| | Leger's lithographs are generally outlined by a line, drawn often quite wide with a brush or pen, and colors are applied flat. | | | Leger's "L'echafaudage au soleil"" is in a 35 5/8" x 31 1/4" contemporary frame finished in flat black. | | | After Le Vase (1927), the first signed edition print by Leger, there was nothing produced until 1948, when Leger produced the first of 22 color lithographs edited by Kahnweiler's Galerie Louise Leiris in Paris. |
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http://www.annalies.com/New_Works/Leger/leger.html
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| | Fernand Leger - Featured Artist - European World Gallery |
| | French painter Fernand Leger was aligned with the cubist movement and was, an innovator in abstract art. | | | Leger experimented with lithography (a highly successful medium for him) at the Paris Atelier 17. | | | By 1911 he had become friendly with Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso and had exhibited at the Salon des Independants. |
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http://europeanworldgallery.com/leger.html
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| | ARTTalk Web Page Index |
| | Fernand Léger worked actively until he died in 1955 in Gifsur-Yvette, his country retreat near Paris. | | | But Fernand found no satisfaction in this career and eventually decided that he wanted to become a painter, much to his family's dismay. | | | His works are currently displayed in the finest international art museums; and the Léger museum at Biot--designed to show the works in a clean, uniform light--contains many of Léger's paintings and large sculptural pieces, which play an integral role in the architecture. |
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http://www.fine-art.com/ARTtalk/artv0806.htm
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| | MoMA.org Exhibitions 1998 Fernand Leger |
| | Fernand Léger (1881-1955) has long been acknowledged as one of the major artists of his time. | | | His art, however, has been subject to more misunderstanding than that of any of his peers in the founding generation of twentieth-century modernism. |
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http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/1998/leger
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| | Fernand Leger |
| | Leger was one of the major contributors to the Cubist style. | | | In 1909, Leger met Robert Delaunay and became a key figure of Salon Cubism. | | | According to Raymond Haasen, Leger became fascinated with the "velo", a multi-branched burin, which gives relief to the wide black areas, which is evident in "L'Oiseau Magique". |
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http://www.annalies.com/Gallery/Fernand_Leger/fernand_leger.html
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| | Toulouse Tourist Office: Monumental Léger, Sculptures and mosaics by Fernand Léger |
| | Now, Fernand Léger’s monumental art is at the museum, but in the public courtyards at Les Abattoirs. | | | Sculptures and mosaics by Fernand Léger in the courtyards of the Les Abattoirs modern and contemporary arts centre. | | | He worked with the leading architects of his time, especially Le Corbusier, who went so far as to state that Léger’s painting was akin to architecture. |
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http://www.ot-toulouse.fr/english/manifacc/42105.html
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| | Fernand Leger |
| | In 1911, Leger made two contributions to the Salon d’Automne, including “Study for Three Portraits,“ which was exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show in the U.S.A. The Cubist’s room at the Salon was hailed by Apollinaire as the “greatest achievement in French art,” but he warned that Leger had yet to find his style. | | | Leger was leading a hard life, working both as a draftsman and as a photo retoucher. | | | In 1909, Leger began to experiment with Cubism and he destroyed almost all his old paintings. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/artists_retired/16096
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| | MAM - Collection - Modern Art - Fernand Leger |
| | Dating from 1910–11, just a year or two after Picasso and Braque pioneered Cubism, Fernand Léger’s Study for Three Portraits is one of his most important early paintings and illustrates the development both of his art and of Cubism itself. | | | MAM - Collection - Modern Art - Fernand Leger |
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http://www.mam.org/collections/modern_detail_leger.htm
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| | Art/Museums: Fernand Léger at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1998 |
| | 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. | | | Art/Museums: Fernand Léger at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1998 | | | Art, for him, was not for art's sake - it was a visionary responsibility to coalesce meaning from the blurring of progress. |
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http://www.thecityreview.com/leger.html
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| | Fernand Léger (1881 - 1955) |
| | George Antheil's reputation as the Bad Boy of Music (the title of his fascinating autobiography) was earned largely with his Ballet Mécanique, written to accompany an abstract silent film by the artist Fernand Leger. | | | Antheil collaborated with Ferdinand Leger, on a film using the same name, and it captures the spirit of the music of those times. | | | It was composed for player pianos and percussion, with harsh, driving rhythms, and it caused the kind of riots in Paris that were useful to a composer's reputation. |
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http://www.jahsonic.com/FernandLeger.html
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| | Fernand Léger: Man in the New Age - ARKEN Museum of Modern Art - Absolutearts.com |
| | Intent on a radical break from his Impressionist style of painting, in 1908 the French artist Fernand Léger (1881-1955) destroyed the bulk of his works. | | | ARKEN is showing ninety-six of Fernand Léger’s works from the period 1905 to 1954. | | | Furthermore Léger’s thoughts on art theory will be available in the form of excerpts from his essays on the function of art in society. |
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http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2005/02/04/32729.html
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| | Fernand Leger (1881 - 1955) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews |
| | Fernand Leger - Umbrella and Bowler 1926 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art French | | | Fernand Leger - The Baluster 1925 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art French | | | Fernand Leger - The Mirror 1925 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art French |
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| | Leger, Fernand : 1881 - 1955 - Cubism, , Absolutearts.com |
| | Leger, a French Cubist painter, started out working for architects. | | | The clarity of his modeling and his use of bright color, often depicting machine subjects or rhythms, are a distinctive phenomenon in modern art. | | | In 1923 he made one of the early experimental art films "Ballet Mechanique" whose content centered on simple, mechanical objects moving rhythmically through space. |
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http://www.absolutearts.com/masters/names/Leger_Fernand.html
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| | Essay Depot - Fernand Leger |
| | Leger painted things in an unusual way as well, for example he drew posts small at the bottom getting larger as they moved upwards. | | | Leger worked toward concentrated structural strengths in his painting. | | | He painted big and colourful paintings, where he took ordinary objects and placed them in front and behind other objects, then painted them in an unusual colour. |
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http://www.essaydepot.com/essayme/1183
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| | Haber's Art Reviews: Fernand Leger's Icy Humanism |
| | Leger aimed for art as important as it darn well should be. | | | How esoteric, both fine art and the café society it describes, when humankind is entering the twentieth century. | | | No wonder Leger's images keep their hold on memories of modern art. |
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http://www.haberarts.com/leger.htm
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| | LEGER IN MUSEUMS |
| | Another of Leger's later works--featuring another of his major themes--The Great Parade, owned by the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, can be viewed here thanks to the "blunet.it/galleria" which includes reproductions of at least 50 painters, modern and not so modern. | | | six Leger paintings representing several periods of work in a "gallery." Unfortunately, this site--which has similar "galleries" for many other artists--does not give dates and locations for the paintings. | | | one drawing by Leger and four of his graphic works. |
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http://vms.cc.wmich.edu/~carlsonn/LEGER.HTML
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Fernand Leger |
| | Fernand Léger is the only major modern artist to choose modernity itself as his subject. | | | The reproductions in Fernand Léger show that his art went beyond Cubist shapes, primary colors and machine imagery; his merging of Cubist stasis with undulating volume can only be called masterly. | | | Subjects > Arts & Photography > Artists, A-Z > (J-L) > Leger, Fernand |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0810961857?v=glance
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| | eBay - fernand leger, Prints, Paintings items on eBay.com |
| | FERNAND LEGER, Cubist art book '62 a rare collectible | | | Fernand Leger LA GRANDE PARADE Abstract Art Print | | | CAHIERS D'ART 1949 with Max Ernst and Fernand Leger |
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http://search-desc.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=fernand+leger&newu=1&...
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| | Fernand Leger Paysage 48 La Racine Gris Album of Ten Serigraphs Composition Méchanique Nature Morte Lithograph |
| | In the catalogue of the exhibition Leger and Purist Paris' (Tate Gallery, London, 1970), John Golding wrote of Leger: 'No other major twentieth-century artist was to react to, and to reflect, such a wide range of artistic currents and movements. | | | Many honours came to him late in life, and a museum dedicated to him opened at Biot in France in 1957. | | | But its static, monumental style remained, with flat, unmodulated colours, heavy black contours, and a continuing concern with the contrast between cylindrical and rectilinear forms. |
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http://www.masterworksfineart.com/inventory/leger.htm#3
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| | Leger Fernand art |
| | Also find Fernand Leger art at our US partner AllPosters.com. | | | With advanced search you can find specific art the convenient way. |
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http://www.postershop.com/Leger-Fernand-k.html&Partnerid=2922
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| | Acquavella: Fernand Léger's Biography |
| | Fernand Léger was born into a peasant family in Normandy, apprenticed to an architect, and then went to Paris in 1900 to study painting. | | | He settled in Montparnasse near artists such as Marc Chagall, Robert Delaunay, Henri Laurens and Chaim Soutine, and learned the lessons of the Parisian avant-garde. | | | He was in New York from 1940-1945, painting murals and teaching, and in the 1950's, he had a number of large mural commissions, including one for the United Nations. |
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http://www.acquavellagalleries.com/main/artist_bio.cfm?artist_id=119
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| | ART / 4 / 2DAY |
| | Nulle tragédie dans la peinture de Fernand Léger: c'est un hymne à la joie de l'homme en gloire sur la terre, le mythe fraternel du bonheur et de la paix. | | | Sous des aspects frustes qu'il accentuait volontiers, le fils de l'éleveur de bétail de Basse-Normandie dissimulait une sensibilité terrienne et la sagesse de l'homme du commun, qui n'est pas dépourvu de finesse ni d'une certaine maladresse. | | | La grandeur du mode allégorique, qui concentre la somme et l'épure de la recherche plastique et emblématique du peintre, triomphe dans la puissance monumentale des deux états définitifs des deux suites des Constructeurs de 1950 et de la Grande Parade de 1954, qui préfigurent la fable d'un nouveau monde. |
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| | Fernand Leger - Cubist Analyst |
| | Fernand Leger, Albright-Knox Art Gallery - Abbeville Press NY ISBN 0-89659-256-1 | | | Fernand Leger - Drawingsand Gouaches, Jean Cassou and Jean Leymarie - NY Graphic Society Ltd - ISBN 0-8212-0532-3 | | | The drawings have lost their architectonic structures: the orthogonal supports, particularly the table, have disappeared, so that the objects are now isolated in space, no longer have the natural interrelationships, which make even the most inventive still-life a familiar organism, i.e. |
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| | Sex Machines - Fernand Léger and his women. By Christopher Benfey |
| | The painter of the machine age: That's the standard line on the French painter Fernand Léger (1881-1955). | | | It's also the theme of the retrospective--the first in New York in 43 years to be devoted to him--mounted at the Museum of Modern Art. | | | Sex Machines - Fernand Léger and his women. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Fernand Leger |
| | Léger, Fernand (1881-1955), French painter, who influenced cubism, constructivism, and the modern commercial poster and other types of applied art.... | | | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Fernand Leger |
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| | Amazon.com Books: Leger, Fernand |
| | Fernand Leger 1911-1924: The Rhythm of Modern Life | | | Max Beckmann and Paris: Matisse Picasso Braque Leger Rouault (Jumbo Series) | | | A Century of Artists' Letters: Notes to Family, Friends, and Dealers, 1855-1968 : Delacroix to Leger |
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| | The Ensemble Sospeso - Fernand Leger |
| | Sospeso presents French painter Fernand Léger's celebrated experimental film Ballet méchanique, with Michael Nyman's live score, at the spring 2003 multimedia concert. | | | From Britannica (paragraphs 2 and 3) and Grove Art. | | | Léger was born into a peasant family in a small town in Normandy. |
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http://www.sospeso.com/contents/composers_artists/leger.html
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| | HERMITAGE MUSEUM ONLINE SHOP: Composition by Fernand Leger |
| | A high-resolution, high-fidelity reproduction on linen canvas of Composition by Fernand Leger from the Hermitage collection. | | | Painting Reproductions: France XV-XX Composition by Fernand Leger | | | This product is eligible for a Friends of the Hermitage discount. |
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http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/shop/html_En/products/10497_Composition_by_Fernand_Leger.html
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| | Ultimate Savers - Fernand Leger Screen Saver |
| | This saver displays artwork done by Fernand Leger. | | | The saver has 24 fabulous images of his art displayed in a slide show format. | | | Fill out the form below to download the Fernand Leger Screen Saver screen saver. |
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http://www.ultimatesavers.com/index.asp?ID=2490
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| | Fernand Leger - Untitled |
| | This work is closely related to a smaller goauche which Leger executed for a frontispiece for the magazine 'Transition', an avant garde publication which was established in Paris in 1927 by Eugene and Maria Jolas. | | | (G. Bauquier, Fernand Leger, Catalogue raisonne 1932 - 1937, Paris, 1996, no. 933). | | | The Andipa Gallery +44 (0) 20 7589 2371 Send Email |
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http://www.artnet.com/artwork/424073920/_Fernand_Leger_Untitled.html
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| | Fernand Leger, French Painter |
| | he French painter Fernand Leger {lay-zhay', fer-nahn'}, b. | | | In paintings such as The Mechanic (1920; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa) and Three Women (1921; Museum of Modern Art, New York City), he favored sharply delineated, flat shapes, unmodeled color areas, and combinations of human and machine forms. | | | After 1930, Leger's style favored precisely delineated and monumental forms modeled in planes and set in shallow space, and he concentrated on depicting scenes of proletarian life, such as his Great Parade (1954; Guggenheim Museum, New York City). |
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| | Fernand Leger artist and art...the-artists.org |
| | Share your comments about the artist Fernand Leger | | | Posters, graphics, original art and books by the Cubism artists. | | | Joseph Fernand Henri Léger was born February 4, 1881, in Argentan, France. |
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| | Art - Fernand Lèger |
| | Argentan in Normandy is the birthplace of Fernand Léger, an underestimated artist, even nowadays. | | | Léger served in the army as an orderly, but he was a victim of a German gas-attack in 1916, and he had to stay almost a year in hospital. | | | His mother and uncle weren't very happy with Léger's choice to become an artist, so they forced him to go to a school for architecture in Caen. |
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| | Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Artists - Fernand Léger (1881-1955) |
| | Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Artists - Fernand Léger (1881-1955) | | | Jules Fernand Henri Léger was born on February 4, 1881, in Argentan, Normandy, After apprenticing with an architect in Caen from 1897 to 1899, Léger settled in Paris in 1900 and supported himself as an architectural draftsman. | | | The Musée National Fernand Léger was founded in 1957 in Biot. |
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http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/english/06_artists/Leger.htm
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| | Leger, Fernand |
| | Home > Art & Framed Prints > Artists > Fernand Leger | | | Fernand Leger was a French painter, trained initially as an architectural designer. | | | Log in, or sign up to become a member. |
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http://www.michaels.com/art/online/artistBio?artistid=1250
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| | 1914-18 war - Art of the First World War - 60 - Fernand Léger |
| | 1914-18 war - Art of the First World War - 60 - Fernand Léger | | | He does not need to enter into such details, for his alternative use of Cubism is a powerful enough suggestion of the violence of the crash. | | | Fernand Léger, La Cocarde, l'avion brisé (La Cocarde, Shot-down Plane), 1916, watercolour on paper, 23.5 x 29.5 cm, Musée National Fernand Léger, Biot. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Fernand Léger |
| | Retraçant un des parcours des plus exemplaires de ce siècle, Arnauld Pierre montre en quoi Fernand Léger, le classique de la modernité, a rempli l'objectif qu'il s'était assigné : créer l'art le plus fidèle à son époque. | | | "C'est debout, en état de guerre avec la société, que ces oeuvres vivantes ont été conçues et forgées", écrivait Fernand Léger vers 1955, à la fin de sa vie. | | | Look for books like Fernand Léger by subject: |
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| | FERNAND LEGER |
| | Fernand Léger (1881-1955) was born in Argentan, Normandy and was apprenticed to an architect in Caen between 1897-1899. |
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