Léger knew Cubist painters and writers, and exhibited in the Salon des Indépendants in 1911. As he progressed, he became more interested in movement and color than the Cubists, and is best known for his large figures in mechanized, industrial settings. For a time in 1935, Galka Scheyer acted as an agent for Léger. She tried to organize an exhibition for him and made unsuccessful attempts to interest the Hollywood film community in his art.
Details
- Artist Name: Fernand Léger (French, 1881-1955)
- Title: Seated Female Nude
- Date: 1909-1911
- Medium: Ink on brown wove paper
- Dimensions: 12-1/2 x 9-5/8 in. (31.8 x 24.4cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
- Accession Number: P.1953.282
- Copyright: © 2017 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris Reproduction, including downloading of ARS works is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Object Information
Expressionists
- Los Angeles, Hollywood Gallery of Modern Art (Lorser Feitelson), 1935 to ?-
Thirty European Modernists
- Oakland Art Gallery, 1928-01-04 to 1928-01-29
Bauhaus Painters; Spirit of Modernism: Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, Oskar Schlemmer, Alexander Archipenko, Alexei Jawlensky and Others
- Seoul, Ho-Am Art Museum, 1996-02-08 to 1996-04-28
European Modernists
- Los Angeles, California School of Fine Arts, 1927-04 to ?-
From Europe to California: Galka Scheyer and the Avant-Garde
- Norton Simon Museum, 2003-05-16 to 2003-10-13
The Blue Four-Galka Scheyer Collection From The Norton Simon Museum
- Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05
The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World
- Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14
- The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 406 p. 150
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 383 pp. 375-376
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