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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 |
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Original works by Fernand Léger available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Fernand Leger at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Fernand Leger
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Postcard
Composition, 1924
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
5 works online
Fernand Leger at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Woman with a Cat, 1921 (Zoom)
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
2 works online
Musée National Fernand Léger, Biot, France (in French) 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
20 works by Fernand Léger online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Three Musicians
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
3 works online
Fernand Leger at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Two Women, 1922
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
Men in the City, 1919
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Men in the City, 1919
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)
5 works online
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 NEW!
The creation of the world
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain NEW!
Composition
Centre Pompidou, Paris (in French)
Information dossier on the artist
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
3 works online
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)
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Information about the 2007 exhibition, "Fernand Léger: Contrasts of Forms"
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
2 works online
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Composition
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Kunsthaus Zurich
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "L"
Fernand Leger in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Study for Three Portraits
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France (in French)
Composition bleue et rouge, 1938
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 Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Red Cock and Blue Sky, 1953
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida - Provenance Research
The Viaduct (Le Viaduc)
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy (in Italian)
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Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy (in Italian)
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Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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9 works by Fernand Léger online
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
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Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Untitled, 1937
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid NEW! (in Spanish)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Les hélices, 1918
Fernand Leger at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
State Museums of Florence, Italy
Self-portrait
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Albertina, Vienna NEW!
2 works online
The Albertina, Vienna NEW!
Two Profiles, 1928
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) NEW!
The Menil Collection, Texas
La mère et l'enfant (Mother and Child), 1951
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian Institution 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)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Fernand Leger at CGFA
Fernand Leger at The Athenaeum
11 works online
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Artyzm
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Malek Gallery
9 paintings
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
Scroll down for 2 works from the 2005 exhibition Masterpieces from the Guggenheim
PBase Photo Sharing
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Le Coq, 1950-52
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site NEW!
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Web Sites Dedicated to the Artist:
Fernand Leger in the Museum
Catalog (in progress) of Léger's works in museums worldwide
Miscellaneous Sites:
Art of the First World War
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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FBI Art Theft Program
La Boite à Chapeau Polychrome
Kubisme (Cubism) (in Dutch)
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales
Contraste de Formes, 1913
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
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Fernand Leger 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
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
Biographical info
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
Slate Magazine
"Fernand Léger and his women," article by Christopher Benfey
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Cubist Charlie Chaplin, 1923-24
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: MoMA Gives Fernand Léger the Exhibition He Deserves
Time Magazine
"Master of Visual Slang", 1998 article by Robert Hughes
Multimedia:
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself
Le ballet mécanique, 1924 film by Léger and Dudley Murphy
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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