Leger’s Paintings

I have been an admirer of Ferdinand Leger’s geometric paintings for a long time, including the two of his murals which had been installed in 1952 in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations headquarters in New York. Now, the Foundation Beyerler is hosting an exhibition of 80 of his paintings in Basel Switzerland, which will continue until the 7th of September. Thanks to the International Herald Tribune displaying of the slides show of some of his famous paintings, I can enjoy seeing “La femme en blue”, Les grands plongeurs noir”. and “Deux femmes tenant des fleurs” without having to travel to Switzerland myself. Ferdinand Leger was a French painter and a member of the Cubism and Tubism movement. He was born in the Argentan, Orne, Basse-Normandie, and at the young age of 25, began painting and producing numerous pieces of arts until at the age of 74 when he died in Gif-sur-Yvette, Essonne. To me Leger was one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century who had left valuable work for appreciation by the generations to come.

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