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Composition

Fernand Léger (1881–1955) · 1937 · Öl auf Leinwand

From the collection of Kunstmuseum Basel. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

At the time of the creation of this work, Léger was already an established artist of the Parisian cultural scene. In the 1930s, he became strongly interested in murals. In line with the contemporary striving to abolish the boundaries between art and life, mural painting brought art to the people for him. At the same time, his works from these years hardly contain any Cubist elements or features of Léger's almost classical figure representations from the 1920s. St...

Kunstmuseum Basel’s own description
Credit lineComposition. 1937. Fernand Léger (1881–1955). Kunstmuseum Basel, Schenkung der Christoph Merian Stiftung aus dem Legat Frank und Alma Probst. Public domain.

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