Fernand Legout-Gérard (1856-1924)

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.

The powerful 20th-century works mirror the actor’s personality. Sculpture and Eugène Leroy took center stage.

A humanist couple’s diamonds and bright bouquet helped a worthy charity, the Fondation des Petits Frères des pauvres.

Recently rediscovered, this painting of a young soldier from the Napoleonic period had even more appeal than expected.

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.

Gérard Depardieu’s soon-to-be-auctioned collection includes many works by Eugène Leroy (1910-2000), an artist who appealed to the actor with his unique paintings that are part figurative, part abstract but always moving.

Some 140 works—paintings, lithographs, gouaches, sculptures, and installations—look back over the pictorial and literary odyssey of this creator without borders. An initiatory journey into the mysteries of the word and the triumph of the figure.

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

The great artist’s portrait of a Napoleonic officer who died in the prime of life has resurfaced.

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