YSL auction to raise Aids funds Nov 18, 2009
Items under the hammer in Paris this week include a 19th Century Dutch brass chandelier worth 30,000 euros and a Fernand Leger painting with an estimated value of up to 70,000 euros. The late designer's billiard table, S-class Mercedes-Benz and Hermes crocodile leather suitcases are also up for sale. (BBC News -- Europe)
Baltimore museum puts art under the big top Mar 25, 2009
Others featured in the show brought a lighter touch to their work, including Paul Klee and Fernand Leger, who celebrated his love for the circus in an illuminated text called "Cirque" (1950). The colorful, playful lithographs from Leger's book close out the exhibit on a festive note. (Yahoo News)
Cubism: Early Twentieth-Century Art... Mar 11, 2009
Their collaborative leadership found support among contemporary artists like Juan Gris, Fernand Leger, and Robert Delaunay. Cubism swept the art world like wildfire, often provoking sharp criticism and political dissent among critics, artists, and patrons. (Suite101.com)
Art.view: Bull for a night Mar 1, 2009
Collectors close by say that it was Mr Sa d who bought Juan Gris s Le Violon of 1913 and Fernand Leger s Le Damier Jaune of 1918 for the relatively reasonable total sum of 7. 6m. (The Economist)
Philadelphia exhibit shows Cezanne's lasting power Feb 26, 2009
Among them is Fernand Leger, who wrote that he pushed himself to the limits of artistic abstraction with his painting "Woman in Blue" from 1912 as a way to "come out from under the Cezannean influence.". An enormous blue wedge done by Ellsworth Kelly in 2002 was inspired by his favorite Cezanne landscape dominated by a lake of similar shape, and Cezanne's iconic oil paintings of bathers hang adjacent to works of the 1950s through the '80s by modernists Jasper Johns and Brice Marden that... (Yahoo News)
Baltimore Museum exhibit on circus art Feb 10, 2009
The museum exhibit, "A Circus Family: Picasso to Leger," runs through May 17, with prints, drawings, paintings, sculptures and books by Pablo Picasso, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Fernand Leger, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse and other artists. The works range from Toulouse-Lautrec's 19th-century circus posters to Picasso's portraits of circus families, done in 1904 and 1905 in Paris, to lithographs from Leger's 1950 book "Cirque." Tickets are required to see the show. (Yahoo News)
