Mother and Her Two Children
| Reference: | S42314 |
| Author | Jules Fernand Henri Léger |
| Year: | 1953 |
| Measures: | 478 x 625 mm |
| Reference: | S42314 |
| Author | Jules Fernand Henri Léger |
| Year: | 1953 |
| Measures: | 478 x 625 mm |
Description
Mother and Her Two Children, 1953.
Lithograph in colors on Arches paper, signed on stone at lower right corner.
Edition 242/600, on pencil lower right. 23-3/4 x 19-3/4 inches (60.3 x 50.2 cm) (sheet).
A fine example, perfect condition.
Jules Fernand Henri Léger was born in Argentan, Normandy, on February 4, 1881. After a period of apprenticeship with an architect in Caen (1897-99), he moved to Paris in 1900 earning a living as an architectural designer. Despite being denied admission to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he attended classes there anyway. He also studied at the Académie Julian. His first works, dating back to 1905, reveal a significant influence of Impressionism, but it is especially the retrospective of Paul Cézanne at the Salon d'Automne in 1907 and contact with early Cubism of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque to have a significant impact on the development of his style. Between 1911 and 1914 his work evolves towards abstraction, with a chromatism limited to the use of primary colors and black and white.
Jules Fernand Henri Léger (1881 - 1955)
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Jules Fernand Henri Léger was born in Argentan, Normandy, on February 4, 1881. After a period of apprenticeship with an architect in Caen (1897-99), he moved to Paris in 1900 earning a living as an architectural designer. Despite being denied admission to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he attended classes there anyway. He also studied at the Académie Julian. His first works, dating back to 1905, reveal a significant influence of Impressionism, but it is especially the retrospective of Paul Cézanne at the Salon d'Automne in 1907 and contact with early Cubism of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque to have a significant impact on the development of his style. In 1910 Léger exhibited with Braque and Picasso at the D. H. Kahnweiler Gallery, where he held his first solo exhibition in 1912. Between 1911 and 1914 his work evolves towards abstraction, with a chromatism limited to the use of primary colors and black and white.
Between 1914 and 1917 is enlisted in the army. In 1917 he began his so-called "mechanical" period, in which figures and objects are characterized by tubular and geometric shapes. At the beginning of the twenties he collaborates with the writer Blaise Cendrars on some films and designs scenes and costumes for the Ballet suédois of Rolf de Maré. In 1923-24 he works on his first film without a plot, Ballet mécanique. In 1924 he opened a studio with Amédée Ozenfant and in 1925, at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs, he presented his first murals in Le Corbusier's Esprit Nouveau pavilion.
In 1931 he visited the United States for the first time, where in 1935 the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago dedicated exhibitions to him. Léger lived in the United States from 1940 to 1945, but returned to France after the war, devoting the last ten years of his life to a variety of projects, including book illustrations, paintings and murals with monumental figures, stained glass windows, mosaics, polychrome ceramic sculptures and designs for stage sets and theatrical costumes. In 1955 he won the Grand Prize of the São Paulo Biennale. Léger died on August 17, 1955 in his home in Gif-sur-Yvette, France. In 1957 the Musée National Fernand Léger is founded in Biot.
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Jules Fernand Henri Léger (1881 - 1955)
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Jules Fernand Henri Léger was born in Argentan, Normandy, on February 4, 1881. After a period of apprenticeship with an architect in Caen (1897-99), he moved to Paris in 1900 earning a living as an architectural designer. Despite being denied admission to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he attended classes there anyway. He also studied at the Académie Julian. His first works, dating back to 1905, reveal a significant influence of Impressionism, but it is especially the retrospective of Paul Cézanne at the Salon d'Automne in 1907 and contact with early Cubism of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque to have a significant impact on the development of his style. In 1910 Léger exhibited with Braque and Picasso at the D. H. Kahnweiler Gallery, where he held his first solo exhibition in 1912. Between 1911 and 1914 his work evolves towards abstraction, with a chromatism limited to the use of primary colors and black and white.
Between 1914 and 1917 is enlisted in the army. In 1917 he began his so-called "mechanical" period, in which figures and objects are characterized by tubular and geometric shapes. At the beginning of the twenties he collaborates with the writer Blaise Cendrars on some films and designs scenes and costumes for the Ballet suédois of Rolf de Maré. In 1923-24 he works on his first film without a plot, Ballet mécanique. In 1924 he opened a studio with Amédée Ozenfant and in 1925, at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs, he presented his first murals in Le Corbusier's Esprit Nouveau pavilion.
In 1931 he visited the United States for the first time, where in 1935 the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago dedicated exhibitions to him. Léger lived in the United States from 1940 to 1945, but returned to France after the war, devoting the last ten years of his life to a variety of projects, including book illustrations, paintings and murals with monumental figures, stained glass windows, mosaics, polychrome ceramic sculptures and designs for stage sets and theatrical costumes. In 1955 he won the Grand Prize of the São Paulo Biennale. Léger died on August 17, 1955 in his home in Gif-sur-Yvette, France. In 1957 the Musée National Fernand Léger is founded in Biot.
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