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Fernand 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.
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Fernand Leger, Plate 111, from Circus, 1950
By Fernand Léger
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Fernand Leger (1881–1955), titled Planche 111 (Plate 111), from the album Cirque, Lithographies Originales (Circus, Original Lithographs), originates fro...
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1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paris : Dantzig
s street - Original lithograph, HANDSIGNED, 1959
By Fernand Léger
Located in Paris, IDF
Fernand Léger
Dantzig's street, 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...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fernand Leger, After the Flood, from The Illuminations, 1949
By Fernand Léger
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Fernand Leger (1881–1955), titled Apres le deluge (After the Flood), originates from the 1949 folio Les Illuminations, lithographies originales de Fernan...
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1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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Still life with Blue Pitcher and Fruits - Lithograph and Stencil, 1950
By Fernand Léger
Located in Paris, IDF
Fernand LÉGER
Still life with Blue Pitcher and Fruits, c. 1950
Original lithograph and stencil (Jacomet workshop)
Printed signature in the plate
On paper 43 x 33 cm (c. 17 x 13 Inc...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
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 Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
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La femme et la fleur
By Fernand Léger
Located in New York, NY
Signed and numbered in pencil; stamp signed and dated
Category
20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
