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Fernand Léger

[French Cubist Painter, 1881-1955]

• Relationships: Léger's students included Sam Francis, William Gear and Tarsila do Amaral.
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The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because these artists of the sixteenth century imitated human forms, they were not superior to the artists of the high periods of the Egyptian, Chaldean, Indochinese, Roman, and Gothic art who interpreted and stylized form but did not imitate it.
 
On the contrary, art consists of inventing and not copying. The Italian Renaissance is a period of artistic decadence.

- Fernand Léger, 1950, quoted in Twentieth-Century Artists on Art

 


 
    Fernand Léger Works Online    
Categorized & Annotated
 
 
Commercial Galleries:  Galleries: We invite you to register and list your site (no charge for this service)
Original works by Fernand Léger available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Notable SiteArt Institute of Chicago   NEW!

Notable SiteFernand Leger at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
3 works online

Notable SiteFine Arts Museums of San Francisco   NEW!
Many works online

Notable SiteGuggenheim Museum, New York City
Click "View all" to see a total of 17 works online

Notable SiteHermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Postcard
Composition
, 1924

Notable SiteMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York City   NEW!

Notable SiteMetropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
2 works online

Notable SiteMusée d'Orsay, Paris
Artworks in the museum's collections database

Notable SiteMusée National Fernand Léger, Biot, France (in French)  

Notable SiteMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston   NEW!
Drawings collection online

Notable SiteMuseum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist

Notable SiteMuseum of Modern Art, New York City
Three Musicians

Notable SiteNational Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh   NEW!

Notable SiteNational Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online

Notable SiteNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Les Trapézistes [Trapeze artists]

Notable SiteNational Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
The Mechanic

Notable SiteNorton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Notable SitePeggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice   NEW!

Notable SiteRéunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)  
5 works online

Notable SiteFernand Leger at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Notable SiteTate Gallery, London, UK

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Untitled, lithograph

Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research
Femme à Genou, ca.1921

Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
The creation of the world

Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
Composition

Caixa Galicia Foundation, Vigo, Spain (in Spanish)  
(Works are shown at the right, under "Obras")

Centre Pompidou, Paris (in French)  
Information dossier on the artist

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Nature Morte a la Coupe

Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland
Composition avec des lettres, 1919

Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (partly in Spanish)  

Hammer Museum, California
Study for La Ville, 1919

Hammer Museum, California
Starfish (L'Étoile de mer), 1936-39

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.   NEW!

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas   NEW!

Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Kunsthaus Zurich

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "L"

Los Angeles County Museum of Art   NEW!

Manchester City Art Gallery, UK

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Study for Three Portraits

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota

Musée de Grenoble, France (in French)  
Le Remorqueur, 1920

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)  
Les deux femmes au bouquet

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)  

Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)  

Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
15 works by Leger

Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
Two Profiles, 1926

National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Grand parade with red background

National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Red Cock and Blue Sky, 1953

Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy (in Italian)  
(Page forward through works by clicking on "FWW")

Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy (in Italian)  
(Page forward by clicking on "FWW" to find Leger's Cirque)

Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)  

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Click the last thumbnail for The Wounded

Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Untitled, 1937

Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish)  

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  
Les hélices, 1918

San Diego Museum of Art, California   NEW!

State Museums of Florence, Italy
Self-portrait

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
The work isn't visible on the first page; keep clicking "next"

The Albertina, Vienna
2 works online

The Albertina, Vienna
Two Profiles, 1928

The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)  

The Menil Collection, Texas
La mère et l'enfant (Mother and Child), 1951

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)

University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City

Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)  

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary   NEW!

Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales
Contraste de Formes, 1913

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Notable SiteFernand Leger at The Athenaeum
11 works online

Notable SiteWikimedia Commons Image Database  

Notable SiteWorld Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)

Fernand Leger at CGFA

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)  
Scroll down for 2 works from the 2005 exhibition Masterpieces from the Guggenheim

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
Le Coq, 1950-52

Rasiel's Wallpapers
(Click on the size of the scan you wish to view)
Works by Fernand Léger to be found on pages 2 and 3 of this site

State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site

USC Annenberg School for Communication

Additional Image Search Tools:
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           Flickr: "Fernand Leger"   
 
Google Images: "Fernand Leger"   
 
Bing Images: "Fernand Leger"   
 
 
Miscellaneous Sites:
Notable SiteFernand Leger in the Museum
Catalog (in progress) of Léger's works in museums worldwide

Art of the First World War

FBI Art Theft Program
La Boite à Chapeau Polychrome

Kubisme (Cubism) (in Dutch)  

Los Angeles Police Department, Art Theft Detail
untitled

Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"

The Androom Archives
La fleur qui marche

The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
La Femme

The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)

 
Articles and Reference Sites:
Notable SiteEncyclopedia Britannica complete article on Fernand Leger  
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Notable SiteUnion List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Notable SiteWikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

Slate Magazine
"Fernand Léger and his women," article by Christopher Benfey

The Art Story

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Cubist Charlie Chaplin, 1923-24

The New York Observer
"MoMA Gives Fernand Léger the Exhibition He Deserves", article by Hilton Kramer

The Village Voice
"Man Overboard", 1998 article by Peter Schjeldahl (via Artnet)

 
Multimedia:
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself
Le ballet mécanique, 1924 film by Léger and Dudley Murphy


"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books:Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.            
Search Inside Books:Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.
 
look inside

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