Fernand Léger National Museum
The Fernand Léger National Museum (French: Musée national Fernand Léger) is a museum in Biot, Alpes-Maritimes, in south-eastern France, dedicated to the work of the twentieth-century artist Fernand Léger. Although originally privately owned, it is now a state museum entitled to style itself Musée de France.
History
In 1955, Fernand Léger bought a villa in Biot, called Mas Saint-André, with the intention of installing polychrome ceramic sculptures in his garden, but died soon afterwards.[1] The museum was built on the property after the death of the artist in 1955 by Nadia Léger and Georges Bauquier [fr], to designs by the architect Andreï Svetchine; an earlier design by Paul Nelson had been rejected. Construction began in 1957, and the museum opened in 1960.[2] The gardens were designed by Henri Fish and contain sculptures based on Léger's work.[3]
References
- ^ "Leger Museum in Biot. Facts. Visits". Paris Digest. 2018. Retrieved 2018-10-22.
- ^ Un musée, un artiste: Le bâtiment (in French). Biot: Musée national Fernand Léger. Archived 25 November 2006.
- ^ Un musée, un artiste: Le jardin (in French). Biot: Musée national Fernand Léger. Archived 25 November 2006.
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- The City (1919)
- The Tugboat (1920)
- Man and Woman (1921)
- Woman with a Cat (1921)
- Still Life with Candlestick (1922)
- Composition with Three Figures (1932)
- Fernand Léger National Museum
- Cubism
- Tubism
- Nadia Khodasevich Léger (second wife)
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