Glazed Ceramic Plate By Ferdinand Leger (1881-1955)

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Glazed Ceramic Plate By Ferdinand Leger (1881-1955)

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Glazed ceramic plate designed by Ferdinand Leger. Fernand Léger initially trained as an architect from 1897-1899 before moving in 1900 to Paris, where he supported himself as an architectural draftsman. After military service in Versailles in 1902-1903, he enrolled at the School of Decorative Arts.He began to work seriously as a painter only at the age of 25. At this point his work showed the influence of Impressionism.In 1909 he moved to Montparnasse and met such leaders of the avant-garde as Archipenko, Lipchitz, Chagall, and Robert Delaunay and 1910 he joined with several other artists, including Delaunay, Jacques Villon, Henri Le Fauconnier, Albert Gleizes, Francis Picabia, and Marie Laurencin to form an offshoot of the Cubist movement, the Puteaux Group—also called the Section d'Or. Léger's experiences in World War I had a significant effect on his work. The "mechanical" works Léger painted in the 1920s, in their formal clarity as well as in their subject matter—the mother and child, the female nude, figures in an ordered landscape—are typical of the postwar "return to order" in the arts, and link him to the tradition of French figurative painting represented by Poussin and Corot. As an enthusiast of the modern, Léger was greatly attracted to cinema, and for a time he considered giving up painting for filmmaking. In 1931, Leger visited New York City and decorated Nelson Rockefeller's apartment.In 1935, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City presented an exhibition of his work. Upon his return to France in 1945, he joined the Communist Party. During this period his work became less abstract, and he produced many monumental figure compositions depicting scenes of popular life featuring acrobats, builders, divers, and country outings. His varied projects included book illustrations, murals, stained-glass windows, mosaics, polychrome ceramic sculptures, and set and costume designs.In 1954 he began a project for a mosaic for the São Paulo Opera, which he would not live to finish. Fernand Léger died at his home in 1955 and is buried in Gif-sur-Yvette, Essonne.

Place of Origin:
France
Period:
1950-1959
Date of Manufacture:
1950
Condition:
Good original condition.
Seller Location:
London, GB
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU9856826661