29,5" FERNAND LEGER "Etude Pour *La Femme en Bleu*" painting art printed on canvas
FERNAND LEGER (1881 – 1955)
Title of artwork: "Etude Pour *La Femme en Bleu*"
Ready to hang on the wall. Canvas on the wooden underframe. Outer frame are not included!
Year: 1912-1913
Technique: printed on canvas nowadays
Condition: perfect
Diagonal: 29,5" or 75 cm.
Size: 17,7" x 23,6" (in) or 45 x 60 cm.
Please note that this is a reproduction printed on canvas
The size may differ from how it looks in the photo
Color can be slightly different from the picture.
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism (known as "tubism") which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunner of pop art. Léger wrote in 1945 that "the object in modern painting must become the main character and overthrow the subject. If, in turn, the human form becomes an object, it can considerably liberate possibilities for the modern artist." He elaborated on this idea in his 1949 essay, "How I Conceive the Human Figure", where he wrote that "abstract art came as a complete revelation, and then we were able to consider the human figure as a plastic value, not as a sentimental value. That is why the human figure has remained willfully inexpressive throughout the evolution of my work". As the first painter to take as his idiom the imagery of the machine age, and to make the objects of consumer society the subjects of his paintings, Léger has been called a progenitor of Pop Art. In May 2008, his painting Étude pour la femme en bleu (1912–13) sold for $39,241,000 United States dollars.
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