Animated Landscape

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Animated Landscape

1924

Fernand Léger (French, 1881–1955)

In the early 1920s, Fernand Léger began to integrate more readily identifiable human figures into his compositions, focusing particularly on the relationship between people and their modern, mechanized environment. Painted after a trip to Venice in the summer of 1924, Animated Landscape depicts the seated artist on the left and the standing figure of his dealer, Léonce Rosenberg, proprietor of the Galerie de l'Effort Moderne in Paris, on the right. Sporting hats and suits, the two men are presented as simplified, schematized figures amidst a dense city scene composed of rigid geometric elements, including a boat and a footbridge, which the artist arranged to create a sense of receding space.

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Object Details

Title:

Animated Landscape

Date:

1924

Artist:

Fernand Léger (French, 1881–1955)

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

19 1/2 x 25 5/8inches (49.5 x 65.1cm) Framed: 28 × 33 1/2 × 3 1/2 inches (71.1 × 85.1 × 8.9 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

Gift of Bernard Davis, 1950

Accession Number:

1950-63-1

Geography:

Made in France, Europe

Provenance

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