A small town in northwestern France is getting a $1.5 million museum dedicated to Fernand Léger, the giant of Cubist abstraction, and one of his earliest friends, the lesser-known painter André Mare.

A major retrospective of the French artist's work at the Centre Pompidou-Metz highlights how he anticipated the accelerating mechanization of human life. Fernand Léger, “La Noce” (1911–12), oOil on ...

The French artist Fernand Léger’s name might not be the first that comes to mind when thinking about Cubists or Dadaists, yet he was a central figure in exploring the boundaries of these movements ...

To look at early-20th century artists’ conceptualizations of machines and technology is to be astonished, in a very particular way, by how thoroughly transformative the shift from mechanical to ...

Fernand Léger's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices of up to 70,062,500 USD for paintings, and 5,392,000 USD for works on papers. In the past 12 months, his paintings ...

Fernand Léger is famous for his colorful paintings, many of which feature machine-like forms. He was also at the center of Paris’ avant-garde in the 1920s, not only in painting, but also in graphics, ...

A lost Fernand Léger painting has reappeared after more than a century of being hidden behind another canvas. The work, an unnamed piece from the “Smoke over the Rooftops” series (1911–12), was ...

This fall’s major exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, “Leger: Modern Art and the Metropolis,” looks at the relationship between painting and urban culture in Paris during the 1920s. It is ...

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In 1919, when the French modernist Fernand Léger created The City, a monumental painting around which the Philadelphia Museum of Art bases the interdisciplinary exhibition “Léger: Modern Art and the ...

Madonna is parting with an abstract French painting she’s owned for more than 20 years to support educating girls in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries. It’s expected to bring $5 million to $7 ...