Fernand Léger en de daken van Parijs
Sjraar Van Heugten, Gwendolyn Boevé-Jones
Museum Kröller-Müller & Tijdsbeeld, 2022
€29,90
In the years 1909 to 1914, Fernand Léger developed into a leading cubist. An important role in this development was played by a series of paintings he made in 1911-1912, the so-called Fumées sur les toits (Smoke above the roofs). He painted the view from his studio in Paris, where he looked out over rooftops surmounted by plumes of smoke. He used the combination of the soft shapes of the clouds of smoke and the hard and angular masses of the architecture to pave his way to a more abstract, radical art form. A few years ago, a still unknown painting from the series Fumées sur les toits was discovered in the Triton Collection Foundation, on the back of another canvas by Léger. The discovery of this work is the reason for this publication, which also pays attention to the influences that Léger underwent from Cézanne, Picasso and Braque, among others. IN DUTCH!
ISBN: 9789490880378
