Art.view: Salvation in Cyrillic Nov 23, 2008
Bonhams is hoping to draw in viewers with an attractive work based on Aeschylus s Seven against Thebes by Alexandra Exter, a Belarusian modernist who taught at the Fernand Leger School in Paris in the 1920s. Christie s is offering a magnificent silver soup tureen commissioned by Catherine the Great. (The Economist)
Museum returns painting found to be Nazi loot Oct 31, 2008
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has sent a painting by cubist Fernand Leger back to the heirs of a Jewish art collector in France, after concluding it had been stolen by the Nazis during World War II.. The museum had owned the 1911 Leger painting "Smoke Over Rooftops" since 1961. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
On the trail of missing art in Wellesley Sep 5, 2008
Wellesley Police have known since last spring that the 1921 painting by French cubist Fernand Leger, Mother and Child, was missing. They are conducting their own investigation and assisting college police. (Wellesley Townsman, MA)
Elite Wellesley College Loses French Painting Likely Worth Millions Aug 29, 2008
Woman and Child' by French Cubist Fernand Leger was lost by Wellesley College in Massachusetts ... Wellesley College hasn't seen the piece, "Woman and Child," by Cubist artist Fernand Leger, since 2007, school officials confessed Wednesday. (FOXNews)
Wellesley vows to better protect art Aug 28, 2008
A day after reports surfaced that Wellesley College's Davis Museum may have unintentionally thrown out a prized 1921 painting by French cubist Fernand Leger, President H. Kim Bottomly promised that new controls will be in place by October to better protect the museum's art. "This issue remains a high priority for me," Bottomly said in a statement. (Boston Globe)
Two different architects with much in common Aug 13, 2008
Le Corbusier: Fernand Leger was a frequent companion on bicycle rides. When Corbu encountered chanteuse Josephine Baker on a 1929 cruise, the pair struck up what "Le Corbusier Le Grand" describes as "an affectionate friendship.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
Art market faces jittery times as economy slows May 16, 2008
Records also were made: A cubist oil painting by Fernand Leger sold for a record $39. 2 million and an Edvard Munch burst its estimate at $30. (MSNBC -- News)
New York auction records help ease fears over art market May 9, 2008
And a work by French cubist Fernand Leger, "Etude pour 'La Femme en Bleu'" went to an anonymous buyer at Sotheby's for a record 39. 2 million dollars. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Leger painting auctioned for more than $39 million in NYC May 8, 2008
NEW YORK (AP) Sotheby's auction house says a cubist oil painting by 20th-century French artist Fernand Leger (Luh-ZHAY') has been sold in New York for more than $39 million. The auction house says the 1912-1913 painting, "Study for a Woman in Blue," sold Wednesday for $39. (Syracuse.com)
Leger's `Etude pour La Femme en Bleu' May Bring $45 Million at Sotheby's Apr 11, 2008
The first, a study painted in 1912, belongs to the Musee National Fernand Leger in Biot, France ... The , a museum in Basel, is hoping all three works will be loaned for its exhibition, ``Fernand Leger Paris -- New York,'' opening on June 1. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Malibu Seen (1) Feb 10, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 Edition. "Museum curator Stephanie Barron has watched the collection grow over the years. "This is a collection that has been built carefully and painstakingly over several decades," Barron says. "Having these works available at LACMA will forever change how future generations of visitors will understand modern art in Los Angeles. (Malibu Times, CA)
Robert Kulicke, 83; artist modernized frame design Dec 16, 2007
He studied painting in the atelier of Fernand Leger and apprenticed himself to several framers. Returning to New York in 1951, he opened Kulicke Frames. (Boston Globe)
Electricity not cut off for Communists - yet Jun 11, 2007
According to Le Monde newspaper, the director of a "large modern art museum" said he had been visited by a Communist Party delegation, asking him to value the large Fernand Leger fresco, "Liberty I write your name," that hangs in the party headquarters. "I was led to believe they were in the process of selling their last assets," he said. (Washington Times)
Eight works by Picasso among treasures of VAG exhibition Jun 10, 2007
If that's not enough, the exhibit also includes works anyone familiar with modern art would immediately recognize such as Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Max Ernst, Paul Gauguin, Fernand Leger, Rene Magritte, Joan Miro, Amadeo Modigliani, Camille Pissaro, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Henry Rousseau, and George Seurat. "It quite genuinely is a once in a lifetime opportunity, at least in Vancouver," Thom said in an interview. (Vancouver Sun)
Q&A with George Fifield Apr 15, 2007
One high point this year will be the Visual Music Marathon, including some very early films by people like Fernand Leger, which show how artists explore music visually. And we're holding a conference called "Ideas in Motion, the Body's Limit," which will include lots of performance and lots of dance. (Boston Globe)
Thoroughly modern Mondrian for Corcoran (Ann Geracimos and Kevin Chaffee) Mar 16, 2007
Upstairs in rooms reconfigured for the show, guests meandered through gallery after gallery admiring works by Fernand Leger, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Georges Braque, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius, among many others. One of the most unusual was the "Frankfurt Kitchen," the first built-in modern kitchen manufactured in mass quantity. (Washington Times, DC)
Modern art sales fetch record Feb 11, 2007
The Cubist-inspired "Les maisons dans les arbres," by Fernand Leger, surpassed all expectations when it sold for $15. 8 million. (NEWS.com.au)
A brush with varied styles leaves an impression Jan 25, 2007
"Fernand Leger: Contrasts of Forms" is a 13-piece exhibition highlighting a vital era in the early 1900s when a revolutionary new style was appearing in Paris. This collection focuses solely on Leger's work as a significant player in the rise of cubism and the creation of abstract art. (The Cavalier Daily, VA)
