A small town in northwestern France is getting a $1.5 million museum dedicated to Fernand Léger, the giant of Cubist abstraction, and one of his earliest friends, the lesser-known painter André Mare.

A major retrospective of the French artist's work at the Centre Pompidou-Metz highlights how he anticipated the accelerating mechanization of human life. Fernand Léger, “La Noce” (1911–12), oOil on ...

Returning to Paris after a stint in the military in World War I, Fernand Leger was besieged by the city’s vitality and modernity found in its pace and its inventions and machines that he devoted ...

The French artist Fernand Léger’s name might not be the first that comes to mind when thinking about Cubists or Dadaists, yet he was a central figure in exploring the boundaries of these movements ...

Does the name Nadia Khodossievitch-Léger ring a bell? She has a Wikipedia page, but her second husband, the French artist Fernand Léger, has a much longer one. Wikipedia may not be a reliable ...

A lost Fernand Léger painting has reappeared after more than a century of being hidden behind another canvas. The work, an unnamed piece from the “Smoke over the Rooftops” series (1911–12), was ...

Fernand Léger is famous for his colorful paintings, many of which feature machine-like forms. He was also at the center of Paris’ avant-garde in the 1920s, not only in painting, but also in graphics, ...

Madonna is parting with an abstract French painting she’s owned for more than 20 years to support educating girls in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries. It’s expected to bring $5 million to $7 ...

Alastair Sooke has been covering art for the Telegraph since 2003. He has presented more than 60 hours of TV and radio for the BBC (Modern Masters, Treasures of Ancient Egypt, An Art Lovers’ Guide) ...

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