The 356 Artworks created around 1950 and containing the word fernand leger, purism, 1950

The defeat of the French troops at Sedan during the Franco-Prussian War was an especially humiliating sore spot for the ruling class of France. During the fighting, the French ruler Napoleon III surrendered and was captured, leaving the French troops of the losing side of the battle with no leadersh...

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After his groundbreaking investigations of complex forms and patterns in the paintings of his Cubist years—paintings such as the 1920 Composition—Léger moved towards a style of greater generalization and simplicity. In the 1920s and 1930s, he experimented with painting large-scale images of the huma...

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