This comprehensive survey provides a chance to see works by Fernand Leger which have never travelled to Britain before alongside his drawings, murals, films, books and textiles.
Born into a modest farming family, Leger was a socialist and for him, art was a means of elevating the quality of life for the working man. Like his close friend William Morris, he believed that art should be enjoyed by all, not just society’s privileged elite.
Ironically today, only that very sector can afford his works; at a Christie’s 2017 auction, a work by Leger sold for $65 million, tripling the previous record for the artist which had been set just four years earlier.
Until March 17th at Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
www.tate.org.uk/liverpool
Image pictured above (Fernand Léger Study for ‘The Constructors’: The Team at Rest | 1950 | Oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art)
