Fernand Léger (1881-1955) - buy Art poster - Belgium - 1979

Fernand Léger (1881-1955) - Art poster - Belgium - 1979

Coloured offset on paper of the exhibition of the French painter and sculptor Fernand Léger at the Cultural Centre Burgemeester A. Spinoy in Mechelen in 1979.

Joseph Fernand Henri "Fernand" Léger (4 February 1881 – 17 August 1955) was a French painter and sculptor. He is considered an important representative of Cubism.

Léger was the son of the cattle farmer Henri-Armand Léger and his wife Marie-Adèle Daunou. His father died when he was 4 years old. At the age of sixteen, Léger was apprenticed to an architect in Caen. In 1900 he moved to Paris, where buy he settled in the Montparnasse district. Here, too, he worked for a while with an architect. He attended classes at the École des Arts Décoratifs and at the Académie Julian. His paintings from this time are under the influence of Impressionism.

In 1907 he met Robert Delaunay and through him he became friends with Alexandre Archipenko, Chaïm Soutine, Amédeo Modigliani and Marc Chagall. He also came into contact with the work of Cézanne, which led him to work more cubistically. In 1911, Léger joined the Puteaux group at the home of Jacques Villon.

During the First World War he was mobilized in the French army. After being wounded, he was rejected in 1916, after which he resumed his life as a painter. His works from the twenties are characterized by a mechanical representation of people and objects. In 1920, Léger met the architect Le Corbusier, with whom he befriended him. He was also introduced to the work of Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg, which became a source of inspiration for him. In 1923, Léger made the sets and costumes for the avant-garde ballet La création du monde. During this period he also worked on various films, such as L'inhumaine (1924) by Marcel L'Herbier for which he made a futuristic laboratory. In 1935, Léger and Le Corbusier visited the United States. The Museum of Modern Art in New York organized an exhibition of his works. Léger also stayed in the U.S. during World War II and returned to France in 1945.

A few years later he moved into a studio in Biot, near the Mediterranean Sea, near Nice and Antibes. He stayed there for two years and then returned to the Paris area. In 1955 he died at the age of 74 in his home in Gif-sur-Yvette.

In good condition (B-). Fold horizontally, fold. Signed in the poster.

Dimensions: 72x29cm.
Total weight: 0.7kg

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