Two different architects with much in common Aug 13, 2008
Le Corbusier: Fernand Leger was a frequent companion on bicycle rides. When Corbu encountered chanteuse Josephine Baker on a 1929 cruise, the pair struck up what "Le Corbusier Le Grand" describes as "an affectionate friendship.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
Art market faces jittery times as economy slows May 16, 2008
Records also were made: A cubist oil painting by Fernand Leger sold for a record $39. 2 million and an Edvard Munch burst its estimate at $30. (MSNBC -- News)
New York auction records help ease fears over art market May 9, 2008
And a work by French cubist Fernand Leger, "Etude pour 'La Femme en Bleu'" went to an anonymous buyer at Sotheby's for a record 39. 2 million dollars. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Leger painting auctioned for more than $39 million in NYC May 8, 2008
NEW YORK (AP) Sotheby's auction house says a cubist oil painting by 20th-century French artist Fernand Leger (Luh-ZHAY') has been sold in New York for more than $39 million. The auction house says the 1912-1913 painting, "Study for a Woman in Blue," sold Wednesday for $39. (Syracuse.com)
Leger's `Etude pour La Femme en Bleu' May Bring $45 Million at Sotheby's Apr 11, 2008
The first, a study painted in 1912, belongs to the Musee National Fernand Leger in Biot, France ... The , a museum in Basel, is hoping all three works will be loaned for its exhibition, ``Fernand Leger Paris -- New York,'' opening on June 1. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Malibu Seen (1) Feb 10, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 Edition. "Museum curator Stephanie Barron has watched the collection grow over the years. "This is a collection that has been built carefully and painstakingly over several decades," Barron says. "Having these works available at LACMA will forever change how future generations of visitors will understand modern art in Los Angeles. (Malibu Times, CA)
Robert Kulicke, 83; artist modernized frame design Dec 16, 2007
He studied painting in the atelier of Fernand Leger and apprenticed himself to several framers. Returning to New York in 1951, he opened Kulicke Frames. (Boston Globe)
Electricity not cut off for Communists - yet Jun 11, 2007
According to Le Monde newspaper, the director of a "large modern art museum" said he had been visited by a Communist Party delegation, asking him to value the large Fernand Leger fresco, "Liberty I write your name," that hangs in the party headquarters. "I was led to believe they were in the process of selling their last assets," he said. (Washington Times)
Eight works by Picasso among treasures of VAG exhibition Jun 10, 2007
If that's not enough, the exhibit also includes works anyone familiar with modern art would immediately recognize such as Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Max Ernst, Paul Gauguin, Fernand Leger, Rene Magritte, Joan Miro, Amadeo Modigliani, Camille Pissaro, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Henry Rousseau, and George Seurat. "It quite genuinely is a once in a lifetime opportunity, at least in Vancouver," Thom said in an interview. (Vancouver Sun)
Q&A with George Fifield Apr 15, 2007
One high point this year will be the Visual Music Marathon, including some very early films by people like Fernand Leger, which show how artists explore music visually. And we're holding a conference called "Ideas in Motion, the Body's Limit," which will include lots of performance and lots of dance. (Boston Globe)
Thoroughly modern Mondrian for Corcoran (Ann Geracimos and Kevin Chaffee) Mar 16, 2007
Upstairs in rooms reconfigured for the show, guests meandered through gallery after gallery admiring works by Fernand Leger, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Georges Braque, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius, among many others. One of the most unusual was the "Frankfurt Kitchen," the first built-in modern kitchen manufactured in mass quantity. (Washington Times, DC)
Modern art sales fetch record Feb 11, 2007
The Cubist-inspired "Les maisons dans les arbres," by Fernand Leger, surpassed all expectations when it sold for $15. 8 million. (NEWS.com.au)
A brush with varied styles leaves an impression Jan 25, 2007
"Fernand Leger: Contrasts of Forms" is a 13-piece exhibition highlighting a vital era in the early 1900s when a revolutionary new style was appearing in Paris. This collection focuses solely on Leger's work as a significant player in the rise of cubism and the creation of abstract art. (The Cavalier Daily, VA)
Exhibit highlights modern art Nov 9, 2006
As one would expect, included in the show are the works of the 20th-century masters: Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Mir;, Piet Mondrian, Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Max Ernst, Paul Klee and Fernand Leger. But the work of many unknowns--artists like David Burliuk and Carl Buchheister--also is part of the treasury of experimental art. (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, VA)
Art and the City Nov 2, 2006
"It is the vertical city. The skyline of New York is the skyline of the 20th century and the setting for Modern art. Though Modern art was invented in Paris, New York City took it over." She cites the painting The City by Fernand Leger: In the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, it was painted in Paris but is more about New York than Paris, with its billboards, flashing lights and buildings of varying heights. Ironically, the idea for this exhibit and colloquium came to Ms. Rosenthal... (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
Collectors of modern masters (Joanna Shaw-Eagle) Oct 28, 2006
Although Miss Dreier was no Alfred Barr, MOMA's legendary founding director, who purchased the museum's iconic Matisses and Picassos, she still managed to build an uneven, but decent, collection starring Mr. Duchamp, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Paul Klee, Man Ray and Fernand Leger. Mr. Kandinsky's early "Multicolored Circle (Mit Buntem Kreis)" is especially eye-catching with its vortex of colorful circles, diagonals and spheres. (Washington Times, DC)
Francisco Brennand's Pagan Studio in Brazil Celebrates Art, Life, Himself Sep 29, 2006
In postwar Paris, Brennand frequented the studios of French cubist painter and sculptor Andre Lhote and painter Fernand Leger and became friends with the Nobel Prize-winning Mexican writer Octavio Paz. I was created in the country, married young and went to Paris,'' Brennand says. (Bloomberg -- Latin America)
His and Her Homes Sep 14, 2006
Carroll Dunham and Fernand Leger. ADVERTISEMENT Then there's Levine. (Los Angeles Times)
To protect the treasures, museums do a little detective work Jun 17, 2006
And nearly nine years ago, a French man claimed that a 1911 painting at the institute "Smoke Over Rooftops" by Fernand Leger had been stolen by the Nazis from his great-uncle, a prominent Jewish art collector in Paris. The MIA is researching the vase, and has not been contacted by Italian authorities, Noon said. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)
Modern art's big names Jan 27, 2006
The show also contains the work of Georges Braque, Fernand Leger, Henri Laurens, Jacques Lipchitz and Juan Gris. Picasso's "Still Life With Sugar Bowl and Fan" is on display in the cubism exhibit as is his painting, "Standing Figure," and his bronze sculpture, "Head of a Woman.". (CNN -- Travel)
