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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

I recall hearing, years ago, that when the ambitious survey exhibition “Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism” was first proposed to the board of the Museum of Modern Art, one trustee protested what ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cubism, the most influential art movement of the early twentieth century, still resonates today. It destroyed traditional illusionism in painting and radically changed the way we see the world. The ...

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Last fall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened up its exhibition of Cubist masterpieces from Leonard Lauder. And after all these months, Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection is finally closing ...