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, ...

Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be the most important exhibition of the essential Cubists-Georges Braque (French, 1882-1963), Juan Gris (Spanish, ...

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.

A major retrospective of the French artist's work at the Centre Pompidou-Metz highlights how he anticipated the accelerating mechanization of human life. Fernand Léger, “La Noce” (1911–12), oOil on ...

If you think all paper books can be replaced by a Nook, iPad or Kindle, take a good look at “Picasso, Braque, & Léger: Twentieth Century Modern Masters,” an exhibition of works on paper at the Forest ...

1 of 3 — Pablo Picasso's Femme assise dans un fauteuil (Eva) (Woman in an Armchair) 1913.Oil on canvas. 3 of 3 — Fernand Léger's Composition (Le typographe) (Composition [The Typographer])Oil on ...

1918-19. (Courtesy 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris) Cubism shattered the conventions of virtually all art that came before it. Rebelling against the forms of Romanticism, ...

Physicists have used carbon dating to confirm that an alleged Fernand Léger painting was definitely a fake. This is the first time it has been possible to identify a fake painting by relying on the ...

Any art history survey will tell you that Cubism revolutionized painting, but few will show you what it was like to be on the Cubist frontline. That is where Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection ...