Tag: France

La partie de cartes (1917)

Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) La partie de cartes (Soldiers Playing cards) 1917 Oil on canvas, 129.5 × 194.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Cylinder Fernand Léger begins working in a cubist style under the influence of Cézanne and later Picasso and Braque. However,…

Nature morte (1929)

Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Nature morte (Still Life) 1929 Oil on canvas, 65.1 × 50.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work belongs to Léger‘s “objects in space” series of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Although overlapping forms…

Le cycliste (1951)

Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Le cycliste (The Bicyclist) 1951 Oil on canvas, 130.8 x 97.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Straddling a bicycle, a sturdy woman stands still. One foot rests on the right pedal, the other on the…

La femme au chat (1921)

Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) La femme au chat (Woman with a Cat) 1921 Oil on canvas, 130.8 × 90.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Woman with a Cat belongs to a group of monumental female figures that Léger painted…

La Grande Parade sur fond rouge (1953)

Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) La Grande Parade sur fond rouge (Grand parade with red background) designed 1953; made 1985 Mosaic (glass, marble), 261.3 × 344.8 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne inscribed in black glazed tiles l.r.: F. LEGER

Les amoureux (1959)

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Les amoureux (The Lovers) 1959 Watercolor on paper, 64 x 49 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires See also: • Paris (France) | Tour Eiffel

Marie l’acrobate (1936)

Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) Marie l’acrobate (Mary the Acrobat) 1936 Oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Circus images began to appear in Léger’s work roughly twenty years prior to Marie l’acrobate (Marie, the…

En observation (1891)

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) En observation – M.Fabre, Officier de reserve (Under observation) 1891 Oil on canvas, 60.5 x 49.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires

Portrait de Suzanne Valadon (1885)

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Portrait de Suzanne Valadon (Portrait of Suzanne Valadon) 1885 Oil on canvas, 55 x 46 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires In 1885, at the age of just twenty-one, in search of independence and…

Point du jour (1878)

Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Point du jour, La Seine à Paris (The Seine at Dawn) 1878 Oil on canvas, 54.5 x 65.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires