Fernand Léger Art
French, 1881-1955
A painter as well as a filmmaker, illustrator, stage-set designer, ceramicist and printmaker, Fernand Léger was one of the most prolific artists of the first half of the 20th century. His early mature work as a Cubist was marked by the use of bold colors and contrasts and a visual vocabulary inspired by industrial technology. In his later career, Léger turned to idiomatic, almost naïve depictions of human figures, in a belief that his work should be accessible to ordinary people and relevant to their lives.
Born in Normandy, the son of a cattle trader, Léger worked as an architectural draftsman in Paris while studying art. By 1908 he was a member of an artistic circle that included Marc Chagall, Robert Delaunay, sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, and the poet Guillaume Appolinaire, and through them he became connected to the Cubists. As opposed to the flat planes and neutral hues seen in the paintings of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, Léger’s Cubist abstractions were devised with vivid colors and forms that had dimensionality. Soon after his army service in World War I — he was gassed at the Battle of Verdun — Léger entered his “mechanical” period. Convinced that technology would improve the human condition, he painted compositions of tubular shapes and cylinders that are reminiscent of machine parts. In other work, Léger sought to capture the bustle and brio of modern life with references to railroad stations, factories, street signs and billboards.
Léger had also emerged from the trenches with a deep concern to make his art engage the sorts of men and women he had met during the war. He sought to bring his work to a wider audience through film, theater sets and book illustrations. In the 1920s, influenced by Purism — a variant on Cubism that promoted a simpler and more direct approach to forms and compositions — Léger produced a series of paintings depicting everyday objects: a soda siphon, an accordion, a guitar and vase. The human figure returned to his work. By 1930, pure abstraction disappeared almost completely from Léger’s art in favor of simple studies of people. Their boldly outlined forms, placed against a bright background, can be regarded as an assemblage of parts — yet in these representations of dancers, acrobats and folks on bicycles, Léger seems to be articulating a kind of kinship and affection. You will see from the works on offer why Fernand Léger is often regarded as the warmest and most humane of the great modern artists.
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Artist: Fernand Léger
The Village VII
By Fernand Léger
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Leger, Fernand
Title: The Village VII
Date: 1965
Medium: Lithograph
Unframed Dimensions: 26" x 19.75"
Framed Dimensions: 32" x 25.75"
Signature: Stamped signature
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
1955 original exhibition poster by Fernand Léger - in Leverkusen, Germany
By Fernand Léger
Located in PARIS, FR
This 1955 original exhibition poster was created for Fernand Léger’s retrospective at Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen, Germany. Featuring Léger’s signature bold lines, geometric abst...
Category
1950s Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Deux nus Dansant, Modern Drypoint Etching by Fernand Leger
By Fernand Léger
Located in Long Island City, NY
Deux nus Dansant
Fernand Leger, French (1881–1955)
Date: circa 1932
Drypoint Etching
Image Size: 8.5 x 7.5 inches
Size: 14.75 x 11 in. (37.47 x 27.94 cm)
From the collection of the l...
Category
1930s Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Broom, Modern Woodcut by Fernand Léger
By Fernand Léger
Located in Long Island City, NY
Fernand Léger, French (1881 -1955) - Broom, Year: 1922, Medium: Woodcut, Image Size: 11.5 x 8.5 inches, Size: 12.5 x 9 in. (31.75 x 22.86 cm), Frame Size: 18 x 15 inches, Descri...
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1920s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Woodcut
Head and Leaf
By Fernand Léger
Located in OPOLE, PL
Fernand Léger (1881-1955) - Head and Leaf
Lithograph from 1939.
Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
The work is in Excellent condition.
Fast and secure shi...
Category
1930s Expressionist Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
The city, The lovers - Original lithograph, HANDSIGNED, 1959
By Fernand Léger
Located in Paris, IDF
Fernand Léger
The lovers, 1959
Original lithograph (Atelier Mourlot)
Signed with the artist's stamp
Limited to 180 copies (Here numbered 160)
On Arches vellum 66 x 50.5 cm (c. 25.9...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
Musée des Arts Decoratifs by Fernand Leger, 1956
By Fernand Léger
Located in New York, NY
Artist: Fernand Leger
Medium: Lithographic Poster, 1956
Dimensions: 30 x 20 in, 76.2 x 50.8 cm
Category
1950s Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
The city, The train station - Original lithograph, HANDSIGNED, 1959
By Fernand Léger
Located in Paris, IDF
Fernand Léger
The train station, 1959
Original lithograph (Atelier Mourlot)
Signed with the artist's stamp
Limited to 180 copies (Here numbered 160)
On Arches vellum 66 x 50.5 cm (...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
1956 Fernand Leger Mourlot Exhibition Poster
By Fernand Léger
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
76 x 52 cm. Printed by Fernand Mourlot on rag paper watermarked "Mourlot." A condition. Not in Saphire. .Fernand Mourlot was born in Paris in 1895. He grew up in the family print shop but it wasn't until he took over in the early 1920s that he would change the fabric of printing forever. His influence fostered a resurgence of lithography, revealing it as a new avenue for expression and a new realm of possibilities for likes of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, and Alberto Giacometti to enrich their own work as well as fine art in general. Fernand cultivated the lithograph as a painter's medium and the family studio on Rue Chabrol became a hub where he could invite artists to work directly on the stone, as if creating a poster. In 1937, the studio produced two posters (based on paintings by Matisse...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$680 Sale Price
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Composition on a yellow background
By Fernand Léger
Located in Paris, FR
Lithograph, 1954
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 59/75
Publisher : Galerie Louise Leiris (Paris)
Printer : Mourlot (Paris)
Catalog : Saphire 138
50.00 cm. x 65.00 cm....
Category
1950s Abstract Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
Composition (Saphire 24-38), Les Illuminations, Fernand Léger
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier vélin teinté, fait a la main paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Les Illuminations, 1949. Published by...
Category
1940s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$6,796 Sale Price
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Cubist Wood Logs - Lithograph and Stencil, 1959
By Fernand Léger
Located in Paris, IDF
Fernand LÉGER
Cubist Wood Logs, 1959
Original lithograph and stencil
Printed signature in the plate
On vellum Auvergne 38,9 x 50 cm (c. 15,3 x 19,6 Inches)
Published in 1959, under the control of the wife of the artist, Nadia Léger...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
The city, The Parisian Café - Original lithograph, HANDSIGNED, 1959
By Fernand Léger
Located in Paris, IDF
Fernand Léger
The Parisian Café, 1959
Original lithograph (Atelier Mourlot)
Signed with the artist's stamp
Limited to 180 copies (Here numbered 160)
On Arches vellum 66 x 50.5 cm (...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
Maison de la Pensee Francaise by Fernand Leger
By Fernand Léger
Located in New York, NY
Artist: Fernand Leger
Medium: Lithographic Poster, 1954
Dimensions: 26.5 x 19.25 in, 67.3 x 48.9 cm
This vibrant lithographic poster, created to promote the opening of an exhibiti...
Category
1950s Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
The city, The umbrellas - Original lithograph, HANDSIGNED, 1959
By Fernand Léger
Located in Paris, IDF
Fernand Léger
The umbrellas, 1959
Original lithograph (Atelier Mourlot)
Signed with the artist's stamp
Limited to 180 copies (Here numbered 160)
On Arches vellum 66 x 50.5 cm (c. 2...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
Tete De Femme, Modern Drypoint Etching by Fernand Leger
By Fernand Léger
Located in Long Island City, NY
Tete De Femme
Fernand Leger, French (1881–1955)\
Date: 1952
Drypoint Etching, stamp signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 100
Image Size: 7.75 x 4.75 inches
Size: 12.5 x 9.25 in. ...
Category
1950s Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Édition...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Original...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$2,556 Sale Price
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Composition (Saphire 24-38), Les Illuminations, Fernand Léger
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier vélin teinté, fait a la main paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Les Illuminations, 1949. Published by...
Category
1940s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$6,796 Sale Price
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Composition with dominos
By Fernand Léger
Located in Paris, FR
Stencil, 1947
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
Edition : 23/30 H.C. + 300
Publisher : Guy Spitzer, Paris
Printer : Guy Spitzer, Paris
Catalog : [Saphire n°E20 p.290-291]
88.00 cm....
Category
1940s Abstract Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Stencil
Still life with Journal and Flowers - Lithograph and Stencil, 1959
By Fernand Léger
Located in Paris, IDF
Fernand LÉGER
Still life with Journal and Flowers, 1959
Original lithograph and stencil
Printed signature in the plate
On vellum Auvergne 50,2 x 40 cm (c. 19,7 x 15,7 Inches)
Publ...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Composition (Saphire 24-38), Les Illuminations, Fernand Léger
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier vélin teinté, fait a la main paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Les Illuminations, 1949. Published by...
Category
1940s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$6,796 Sale Price
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Still Life - Lithograph by F. Léger - 1951
By Fernand Léger
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is a color lithograph realized by Fernand Léger (1881-1955) and published by éditions Falaize, Paris, 1951.
With the additional values of the blue ink signature and an ...
Category
1950s Contemporary Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
La Partie de Campagne
By Fernand Léger
Located in OPOLE, PL
Fernand Léger (1881-1955) - La Partie de Campagne
Lithograph from 1952.
Dimensions of work: 52 x 35 cm
Publisher: Tériade, Paris.
On the verso another Lithographs in black.
The ...
Category
1950s Surrealist Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
La Partie de Campagne (Saphire E14), Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 20.50 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue r...
Category
1950s Cubist Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,036 Sale Price
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The Village XI
By Fernand Léger
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Leger, Fernand
Title: The Village XI
Date: 1965
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: E.A. from Mourlot Archives
Printer: Mourlot, Paris
Unframed Dimensions: 26" x 19.75"
Framed ...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
1959 Original poster by Fernand Léger - Maison de la pensée française
By Fernand Léger
Located in PARIS, FR
Fernand Léger, a towering figure in 20th-century art, left an indelible mark through his diverse and dynamic body of work. Born on February 4, 1881, in Argentan, France, Léger's arti...
Category
1950s Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Édition...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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From the Series "La Ville"
By Fernand Léger
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph was printed at the Atelier Mourlot in Paris in 1959 and is a part of the "La Ville" portfolio. It is annotated "Epreuve de l'atelier Mourlot /...
Category
1950s Post-War Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Éditions Verve, Paris, under the direction of Tériade, éditeur, Paris; printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris, October 5, 1950. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), "Cirque" is entirely composed, handwritten text and illustrations, of original lithographs by Fernand Léger. This album was produced by Fernand Léger with the collaboration of Tériade and Marguerite Lang. It was completed printing on the presses de Mourlot Frères, on October 5, 1950, for Les Éditions Verve, Paris. The edition of this album includes two CCLXXX examples numbered from I to CCLXXX and XX hors-commerce examples. Numbered from I to XX. All examples, on vélin d'Arches, are signed by the artist [on the colophon].
Catalogue raisonné reference: Léger, F., & Saphire, L. (1978). Fernand Léger : the complete graphic work. Blue Moon Press, 44-106.
History of the edition: Cirque was originally conceived as a collaboration between Fernand Léger and the novelist Henry Miller. At a time when the two were interested in working together, the publisher Efstratios Tériade Léger approached Leger to make prints for an artist’s book. Tériade hoped to publish a series of such books with the circus as the theme. Léger was a circus enthusiast who often used circus images in his paintings. He often went to the Cirque Médrano in Paris and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
37% Off
Composition (Saphire 24-38), Les Illuminations, Fernand Léger
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier vélin teinté, fait a la main paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Les Illuminations, 1949. Published by...
Category
1940s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$6,796 Sale Price
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Chevreuse
By Fernand Léger
Located in Paris, FR
Silksreen, ca1951
Handsigned by the artist in pencil and numbered 194/200
Publisher : Guilde Internationale de la Gravure (Genève et Paris)
Printer : Jean Bruller (Paris)
Catalog : [...
Category
1950s Abstract Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Silk
Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Original...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$2,556 Sale Price
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Liberté j’écris ton nom.
By Fernand Léger
Located in New York, NY
Éluard, Paul. Liberté j’écris ton nom. Paris (Seghers), [1953].
Folding broadside (leporello), with continuous color silkscreen by Fernand Léger, integrated with text, extending th...
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1950s Cubist Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Screen
Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Original...
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1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$2,556 Sale Price
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1971 Original poster promoting an exhibition of Fernand Léger
By Fernand Léger
Located in PARIS, FR
A beautiful poster promoting an exhibition with artworks by the French painter, sculptor and filmmaker, Fernand Léger (1881-1955).
Léger was highly influenced by the movements in ar...
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1970s Cubist Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Composition (Saphire 24-38), Les Illuminations, Fernand Léger
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier vélin teinté, fait a la main paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Les Illuminations, 1949. Published by...
Category
1940s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$6,796 Sale Price
20% Off
Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Édition...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Édition...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Édition...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Composition (Saphire 24-38), Les Illuminations, Fernand Léger
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier vélin teinté, fait a la main paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Les Illuminations, 1949. Published by...
Category
1940s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$6,796 Sale Price
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Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Édition...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Édition...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Édition...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Édition...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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Composition (Saphire 24-38), Les Illuminations, Fernand Léger
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier vélin teinté, fait a la main paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Les Illuminations, 1949. Published by...
Category
1940s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$6,796 Sale Price
20% Off
Composition (Saphire 24-38), Les Illuminations, Fernand Léger
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier vélin teinté, fait a la main paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Les Illuminations, 1949. Published by...
Category
1940s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$6,796 Sale Price
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Profil de Femme, Modern Drypoint Etching by Fernand Leger
By Fernand Léger
Located in Long Island City, NY
Profil de Femme
Fernand Leger, French (1881–1955)
Date: circa 1931 (pulled 1961)
Drypoint Etching on Richard de Bas
Edition of 102
Image Size: 10 x 8 inches
Size: 15.75 x 12 in. (40....
Category
1960s Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
1959 original poster by Fernand Léger at the Galerie Louise Leiris in Paris
By Fernand Léger
Located in PARIS, FR
In May 1959, the Galerie Louise Leiris in Paris hosted an extraordinary exhibition showcasing Fernand Léger's La Ville: 29 Lithographies Originales (The City: 29 Original Lithographs...
Category
1950s Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
The Outing (La Partie de Campagne) (Verve)
By Fernand Léger
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Fernand Leger
Title: The Outing (La Partie de Campagne) (Verve)
Medium: Original lithograph
Date: 1952
Edition: Unnumbered
Sheet Size: 14" x...
Category
1950s Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
Yellow Carpet 9 - After Fernand Léger
By Fernand Léger
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Jaune No. 9 / Yellow Carpet 9 - After Fernand Léger
Signed
Wool
Limited edition of 100 copies
Modern Masters Tapestries, Inc
L224xD113
Price : 17900 euros
Category
2010s Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Wool
Tête et Feuille, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Verve: Revue Art...
Category
1930s Fauvist Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Édition...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
37% Off
Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Éditions Verve, Paris, under the direction of Tériade, éditeur, Paris; printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris, October 5, 1950. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), "Cirque" is entirely composed, handwritten text and illustrations, of original lithographs by Fernand Léger. This album was produced by Fernand Léger with the collaboration of Tériade and Marguerite Lang. It was completed printing on the presses de Mourlot Frères, on October 5, 1950, for Les Éditions Verve, Paris. The edition of this album includes two CCLXXX examples numbered from I to CCLXXX and XX hors-commerce examples. Numbered from I to XX. All examples, on vélin d'Arches, are signed by the artist [on the colophon].
Catalogue raisonné reference: Léger, F., & Saphire, L. (1978). Fernand Léger : the complete graphic work. Blue Moon Press, 44-106.
History of the edition: Cirque was originally conceived as a collaboration between Fernand Léger and the novelist Henry Miller. At a time when the two were interested in working together, the publisher Efstratios Tériade Léger approached Leger to make prints for an artist’s book. Tériade hoped to publish a series of such books with the circus as the theme. Léger was a circus enthusiast who often used circus images in his paintings. He often went to the Cirque Médrano in Paris and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Éditions Verve, Paris, under the direction of Tériade, éditeur, Paris; printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris, October 5, 1950. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), "Cirque" is entirely composed, handwritten text and illustrations, of original lithographs by Fernand Léger. This album was produced by Fernand Léger with the collaboration of Tériade and Marguerite Lang. It was completed printing on the presses de Mourlot Frères, on October 5, 1950, for Les Éditions Verve, Paris. The edition of this album includes two CCLXXX examples numbered from I to CCLXXX and XX hors-commerce examples. Numbered from I to XX. All examples, on vélin d'Arches, are signed by the artist [on the colophon].
Catalogue raisonné reference: Léger, F., & Saphire, L. (1978). Fernand Léger : the complete graphic work. Blue Moon Press, 44-106.
History of the edition: Cirque was originally conceived as a collaboration between Fernand Léger and the novelist Henry Miller. At a time when the two were interested in working together, the publisher Efstratios Tériade Léger approached Leger to make prints for an artist’s book. Tériade hoped to publish a series of such books with the circus as the theme. Léger was a circus enthusiast who often used circus images in his paintings. He often went to the Cirque Médrano in Paris and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Édition...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition, with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Original...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$2,556 Sale Price
20% Off
Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Édition...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Composition, Cirque (Saphire, N° 44-106)
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Cirque, Lithographies Originales. Published by Les Éditions Verve, Paris, under the direction of Tériade, éditeur, Paris; printed by Mourlot Frères, Paris, October 5, 1950. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), "Cirque" is entirely composed, handwritten text and illustrations, of original lithographs by Fernand Léger. This album was produced by Fernand Léger with the collaboration of Tériade and Marguerite Lang. It was completed printing on the presses de Mourlot Frères, on October 5, 1950, for Les Éditions Verve, Paris. The edition of this album includes two CCLXXX examples numbered from I to CCLXXX and XX hors-commerce examples. Numbered from I to XX. All examples, on vélin d'Arches, are signed by the artist [on the colophon].
Catalogue raisonné reference: Léger, F., & Saphire, L. (1978). Fernand Léger : the complete graphic work. Blue Moon Press, 44-106.
History of the edition: Cirque was originally conceived as a collaboration between Fernand Léger and the novelist Henry Miller. At a time when the two were interested in working together, the publisher Efstratios Tériade Léger approached Leger to make prints for an artist’s book. Tériade hoped to publish a series of such books with the circus as the theme. Léger was a circus enthusiast who often used circus images in his paintings. He often went to the Cirque Médrano in Paris and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus...
Category
1950s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Composition (Saphire 24-38), Les Illuminations, Fernand Léger
By Fernand Léger
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier vélin teinté, fait a la main paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Les Illuminations, 1949. Published by...
Category
1940s Modern Fernand Léger Art
Materials
Lithograph
$6,796 Sale Price
20% Off
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- 1stDibs ExpertJanuary 10, 2025Fernand Léger was famous for his work as an artist. A painter as well as a filmmaker, illustrator, stage-set designer, ceramicist and printmaker, Léger was one of the most prolific artists of the first half of the 20th century. His early mature work as a Cubist was marked by the use of bold colors and contrasts and a visual vocabulary inspired by industrial technology. In his later career, Léger turned to idiomatic, almost naïve depictions of human figures, in a belief that his work should be accessible to ordinary people and relevant to their lives. Explore a diverse assortment of Fernand Léger art on 1stDibs.