Fernand Léger

Fernand Léger was born in Argentan in 1881 and died in Gif-sur-Yvette in 1955. The son of Norman farmers, he moved to Paris, where he mixed with Chagall, Delaunay, Soutine, Apollinaire and Modigliani. In 1907 he discovered the Cubism of Braque and Picasso, which inspired his own pictorial language, “Tubism”. A supporter of…