Art
Fernand Leger, Woman/Horse, ceramic plate, S.E.A.L Editions Musee F. Leger Biot
- Item Number
- A-6
- Estimated Value
- 300 USD
- Opening Bid
- 100 USD
Item Description
In 1960, the Musée Fernand Léger was opened in Biot, Alpes-Maritimes, France. A limited amount of these plates were sold to support the museum. Léger began his career as a an artist by serving an apprenticeship in architecture in Caen and working as a architectural draughtsman. In 1900 Léger went to Paris and was admitted to the École des Arts Décoratifs in 1903 and also attended the Académie Julian. As a painter Fernand Léger exerted an enormous influence on the development of Cubism, Constructivism and the modern advertising poster as well as various forms of applied art. By 1920, influenced by Purism and the retro Neo-Classicism practiced by Picasso and others, Léger had achieved a mechanistic classicism, a precise, geometrical rendering of modern objects, with the human figure incorporated as an equally machine-like being. Surrealism also left its mark on Fernand Léger in the 1930s, loosening up his style and making it more curvilinear.
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