A small town in northwestern France is getting a $1.5 million museum dedicated to Fernand Léger, the giant of Cubist abstraction, and one of his earliest friends, the lesser-known painter André Mare.

Returning to Paris after a stint in the military in World War I, Fernand Leger was besieged by the city’s vitality and modernity found in its pace and its inventions and machines that he devoted ...

Today the Philadelphia Museum of Art opens a new exhibit of paintings by the first great painter of the modern urban city. Fernand Léger was schooled in the cubist style that swept Paris in the 1910s, ...

Fernand Léger is famous for his colorful paintings, many of which feature machine-like forms. He was also at the center of Paris’ avant-garde in the 1920s, not only in painting, but also in graphics, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jane Levere is a New York-based freelance writer covering the arts. This fall’s major exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art ...

In 1919, when the French modernist Fernand Léger created The City, a monumental painting around which the Philadelphia Museum of Art bases the interdisciplinary exhibition “Léger: Modern Art and the ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. "This is going to be a very dynamic exhibition," says curator Anna Vallye. She also says the exhibit is a multimedia ...