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Fernand Léger
[French Cubist Painter, 1881-1955]
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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
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Original works by Fernand Léger available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fernand Leger at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
3 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Click "View all" to see a total of 17 works online
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Postcard
Composition, 1924
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
2 works online
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Artworks in the museum's collections database
Musée National Fernand Léger, Biot, France (in French) 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Three Musicians
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Les Trapézistes [Trapeze artists]
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
The Mechanic
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)
5 works online
Fernand Leger at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Tate 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:
Fernand Leger at The Athenaeum
11 works online
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World 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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Miscellaneous Sites:
Fernand 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:
Encyclopedia 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
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, 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
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Leger: Cameo
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