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Fernand Léger
[French Cubist Painter, 1881-1955]
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The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because these artists of the sixteenth century imitated human forms, they were not superior to the artists of the high periods of the Egyptian, Chaldean, Indochinese, Roman, and Gothic art who interpreted and stylized form but did not imitate it.
On the contrary, art consists of inventing and not copying. The Italian Renaissance is a period of artistic decadence.
| | - Fernand Léger, 1950, quoted in Twentieth-Century Artists on Art |
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Original works by Fernand Léger available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW!
15 works by Fernand Léger online
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
3 works online
Fernand Leger at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Rimbaud
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Fernand Leger
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Postcard
Composition, 1924
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
5 works online
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
Fernand Leger at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Woman with a Cat, 1921 (Zoom)
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City
2 works online
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
4 works
Musée National Fernand Léger, Biot, France (in French) 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
20 works by Fernand Léger online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Three Musicians
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
3 works online
Fernand Leger at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Two Women, 1922
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Les Trapézistes [Trapeze artists]
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
The Mechanic
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Men in the City, 1919
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Men in the City, 1919
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)
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5 works online
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Untitled, lithograph
Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, California
Starfish, 1936-39
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The bicycle, 1930
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Poster
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2 prints online
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research
Femme à Genou, ca.1921
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
The Aviator
Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Nature Morte a la Coupe
Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland
Composition avec des lettres, 1919
Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (partly in Spanish)
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
2 works online
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Composition
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Kunsthaus Zurich
Fernand Leger in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin NEW!
Study for Three Portraits
Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France (in French) NEW!
Composition bleue et rouge, 1938
Musée de Grenoble, France (in French)
Le Remorqueur, 1920
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon, France (in French)
Les deux femmes au bouquet
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
15 works by Leger
Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design
Les Fleurs (Flowers) (image 46)
Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
Two Profiles, 1926
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Red Cock and Blue Sky, 1953
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida - Provenance Research
Le Viaduc
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna NEW!
Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy (in Italian)
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Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy (in Italian)
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Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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9 works by Fernand Léger online
Portland Museum of Art, Maine NEW!
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Portland Museum of Art, Maine NEW!
Untitled, 1937
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Les hélices, 1918
Fernand Leger at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
State Museums of Florence, Italy
Self-portrait
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
Land Scape
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Commercial Galleries:
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from past sales
Contraste de Formes, 1913
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
Professional Tools:
Artprice
Fernand Léger copyright requests handled by the Artists Rights Society.
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Fernand Leger at CGFA
Fernand Leger at Insecula
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Artyzm
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Fernand Leger at ImageNETion
Malek Gallery
9 paintings
PBase Photo Sharing
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Le Coq, 1950-52
The Athenaeum
2 works online
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Web Sites About the Artist:
Fernand Leger in the Museum
Catalog (in progress) of Léger's works in museums worldwide
Other Web Sites:
Art of the First World War
FBI Art Theft Program
La Boite à Chapeau Polychrome
Kubisme (Cubism) (in Dutch)
Los Angeles Police Department, Art Theft Detail NEW!
untitled
The Androom Archives
La fleur qui marche
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
La Femme
The Modernist Journals Project NEW!
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Fernand Leger
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Slate Magazine
"Fernand Léger and his women," article by Christopher Benfey
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Cubist Charlie Chaplin, 1923-24
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: MoMA Gives Fernand Léger the Exhibition He Deserves
Multimedia:
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself
Le ballet mécanique, 1924 film by Léger and Dudley Murphy
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