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THBFernand Leger (1881-1955) French, Framed 1997 Retrospective Poster
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522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
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Fernand Leger (1881-1955) French, Framed 1997 Retrospective Poster. Affiche-type poster. Shows Leger's 1927 painting "Woman Holding a Vase" with dates in May through September and the address for the retrospective exhibition.
Overall Size: 28 x 22 1/2 in.
Sight Size: 27 1/4 x 19 3/4 in.
#1 #4606
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger was born in 1881 in Argentan, France. He initially trained as an architect from 1897 to 1899 before moving in 1900 to Paris, where he supported himself as a draftsman. He enrolled at the School of Decorative Arts in 1904 after his application to the École des Beaux-Arts was rejected. He simultaneously attended the Beaux-Arts as a non-enrolled student, spending what he described as “three empty and useless years” studying with Jean-Leon Gérôme and others, while also studying at the Académie Julian. A new emphasis on geometry appeared in Léger’s work after he saw the Cézanne retrospective at the Salon d’Automne in 1907 and was profoundly inspired by impressionism, and he also became notorious for destroying his work when he was unsatisfied with it, resulting in hardly any of his early pieces surviving. In 1909 he moved to Montparnasse and by the following year he was exhibiting at the Salon d’Automne in the same room as Jean Metzinger and Henri Le Fauconnier, displaying a personal form of Cubism that his critics termed “Tubism” for its emphasis on cylindrical forms. In 1911 the hanging committee of the Salon des Indépendants included him and many of his associates together and identified them formally as Cubists. From then until 1914 Leger’s work became increasingly abstract, although he avoided the collage technique pioneered by Braque and Picasso. Léger’s experiences in World War I had a significant effect on his work, and he spent two years at the front in Argonne producing many sketches of artillery pieces, airplanes, and fellow soldiers while in the trenches. In 1916 he almost died after a mustard gas attack at Verdun, and during a period of convalescence in Villepinte he painted stark works that marked the beginning of his “mechanical period.” In 1919 he married Jeanne-Augustine Lohy and the following year he met Le Corbusier, who would remain a lifelong friend. Léger was greatly attracted to modern cinema, and for a time considered giving up painting for filmmaking, even designing sets for films and directing the Futurism-influenced film Ballet Mécanique. In collaboration with Amédée Ozenfant he established the Académie Moderne in 1924, a free school where he taught with Alexandra Exter and Marie Laurencin. He produced the first of his “mural paintings,” influenced by Le Corbusier’s theories, in 1925, and from 1927 on his work slowly changed as organic and irregular forms assumed greater importance in his figural images. In 1931 Léger made his first visit to the United States, and in 1935 the Museum of Modern Art in New York presented an exhibition of his work. During World War II Léger lived in the United States, teaching at Yale University, and found inspiration for a new series of paintings in the sight of industrial refuse abandoned in the countryside. Upon his return to France in 1945 he joined the Communist Party, and his work became less abstract as he produced many monumental figure compositions depicting scenes of popular life featuring acrobats, builders, divers, and farmers. After the death of his wife in 1950 he fell into depression, marrying Nadia Khodossevitch two years later. In his final years he designed mosaics and stained-glass windows for the Central University of Venezuela, and began a project for a mosaic for the São Paulo Opera which he would not live to finish, as he died suddenly at his French home in 1955. His Humanist ideology and embracing of industrial forms was revolutionary, and Léger has been called a progenitor of Pop Art. A prolific teacher as well as artist, his pupils carried on his legacy, and his art is still on permanent display in countless museums around the world.
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28 x 22 1/2 in.
