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Fernand Leger
French Painter
(1881 - 1955)

Leger was the first of the Cubists to experiment with non-figurative abstraction, contrasting curvilinear forms against a rectilinear grid.

He renounced abstraction during the First World War, when he claims to have discovered the beauty of common objects, which he described as 'everyday poetic images'. He began painting in a clean and precise style, in which objects are defined in their simplest terms in bold colours, taking cityscape and machine parts as his subject matter.

Offset lithograph on vellum paper from the Arches mill in France, a producer of artisan quality paper for over five centuries.

This is a reproduction of the original lithograph made in 1948 and was printed by ARTE, Paris in 1986.

24" x 17.5"

From an edition of approximately 300.

Very nice.

Condition: As New.

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