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Yet the painting is more than merely abstract: Léger projects a hyperbole of Paris, envisioning a polychrome canyon of ubiquitous (though illegible) advertisements, into which the human occupants—notice the pair of sooty pedestrians at bottom center—are shoehorned only precariously.
Sep 19, 2022 · Catalogue of the exhibition Léger and the cinema. at the Fernand Léger National Museum, from 11 June to 19 September 2022. In the midst of the First World War, while on leave with Guillaume Apollinaire, Fernand Léger discovered Charlie Chaplin in 1916, which was a real revelation for the painter.
The City (French: La Ville) is a 1919 painting by French painter and sculptor Fernand Léger. The painting is Cubist in style and is now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Albert Eugene Gallatin donated the piece to the museum in 1952 and it has also been shown at the Guggenheim Museum.
Oct 14, 2023 · The City, or La Ville to give it it's original French title, is one of Fernand Leger's most memorable Cubist paintings and was completed in 1919. The artist would have been in his late thirties at that time.
Fernand Léger. The City. 1919. Oil on canvas. 38 1/8 x 51 3/8" (96.8 x 130.5 cm). ... Paris. Painting and Sculpture. Skip to main content. ... For more information ...
This interdisciplinary exhibition takes as its inspiration and point of departure Fernand Léger's 1919 painting The City, a cornerstone of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's collection and one of the most important works in the history of modern art.
Fernand Léger,The City, 1919. “It’s about time,” says Anna Vallye, exhibition curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, about the show “Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis” (October 14–January 5), which centers around The City (1919).
