Fernand Léger (1881-1955)

As part of their art education policy, the French National Museums of the 20th Century in the Alpes-Maritimes have commissioned DJ Roman Kouder to create a mixtape incorporating Fernand Léger's sound archives, revisiting themes dear to the artist in 20 minutes: color, movement and contrast. Listen to it here.

Léger found his way by inventing iconography based on a trilogy of forms, solid colors and black outlines, creating distinct, instantly identifiable compositions.

Given by the artist to his model, Ernest Blasini, this portrait is a rare early work by Fernand Léger. A mark of friendship, reflecting Cézanne's influence.

This tapestry is one of four based on a 1953 painting on cardboard by Fernand Léger.

This 1958 bronze by Marie-Thérèse Pinto and another, Astral colloquium, from 1962 (€300/500), close the sale of this collection.

Under Arthur Rimbaud's illuminated gaze by Fernand Léger, a young stag by Rembrandt Bugatti frolicked in a flowery field woven by Dom Robert.

The Rimbaud Museum in Charleville-Mézières, the poet's birthplace, is adding a portrait to its collection for €19,300: a gouache on paper by Fernand Léger, made from a photograph by Étienne Carjat. The hammer at Oger-Blanchet & Mathias-Bournazel also fell at €177,744 for a Bugatti Stag.

The French cartoonist, known throughout the world thanks to the adventures of Petit Nicolas, is a lover of painting and music. His heroes: Duke Ellington and... Leonardo da Vinci!

Claude de Soria (1926-2015), a cement sculptor, studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière with André Lhote. Her studio, located in the heart of the Montparnasse district, is not far from the Zadkine Museum and Fernand Léger's studio, who were her teachers. Visit by appointment.

André Lurçat, Max Ingrand, Gilbert Poillerat and others successfully showcased the modernity of 20th-century decorative arts.