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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1925, the photographer André Kertész moved from Hungary to Paris, where he became embedded in an influential community of artists including Constantin Brancusi, Piet Mondrian and Fernand Léger. He ...

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 ...

If pictorial expression has changed, it is because modern life has necessitated it. The existence of modern creative people is much more intense and more complex than that of people in earlier ...

Michel Seuphor, Portrait of Fernand Leger in his studio, 1929. Vintage gelatin silver print, 4 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches (11.4 x 15.9 cm). Signed, titled, dated, and stamped. Please complete all fields.

Léger, 1911-1924 : a language for the modern world / Dorothy Kosinski -- The artist as 'homo faber' : observations on Léger's 'modernity' / Gottfried Boehm -- 'La femme en bleu' / Katharina Schmidt -- ...

Among the fraternity, French art dealers have a handy way of figuring the value of pictures by artists with established reputation: they measure the canvases and divide the area into the resulting ...