Fernand Léger (French, 1881 - 1955)

Fernand Léger

French | 1881 - 1955

Fernand Léger was a French Impressionist & Modern artist who was born in 1881. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like MASI Lugano, LAC . Numerous key galleries and museums such as Fondation Beyeler, Basel have featured Fernand Léger's work in the past.Fernand Léger's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 4 USD to 70,062,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 70,062,500 USD for Contraste de formes, sold at Christie's New York in 2017. Fernand Léger has been featured in articles for FAD Magazine, ArtLyst and Apollo. The most recent article is New Book Reveals How Art Dealer Léonce Rosenberg Trod the Line Between Salesman and Modern Art's Great Champion written for The Art Newspaper in March 2024. The artist died in 1955.

Artist's alternative names: F. Léger, Fernand Leger, Joseph Fernand Henri Léger

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Current Exhibitions

Red Birds On Green Tree

Sara Hildén Art Museum
Tampere | Finland
Feb 17,2024 - May 12,2024

The Fondation Maeght thinks big!

Fondation Maeght
Saint-paul-de-vence | France
Dec 18,2023 - Jun 11,2024

Articles

New Book Reveals How Art Dealer Léonce Rosenberg Trod the Line Between Salesman and Modern Art's Great Champion
Tate Masterpieces Tour the Midlands in a Mobile Museum.
Tate Collection Mobile Museum Hits the Road in the Midlands

Coverage

..A close look at Léger’s oeuvre reveals currents that could be compared to precepts characteristic of Surrealism...

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Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais

..Léger’s work was heavily influenced by his surroundings and his experience of modern life...

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Tate Liverpool

..Classicizing creations such as de Chirico's enigmatic piazzas, Picasso's postcubist women, Léger's mechanized nudes, and Picabia's "transparencies" made the arts of antiquity modern...

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J. Paul Getty Museum at The Getty Villa

..While many of his colleagues abandoned painting in favor of merging art with modern life, Léger instead developed a profoundly reciprocal relationship between his ongoing pursuit of painting and his exploration...

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Philadelphia Museum of Art

..Léger offered to set up and pay for a ceramics workshop for the gifted ceramicist...

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Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern

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