A small town in northwestern France is getting a $1.5 million museum dedicated to Fernand Léger, the giant of Cubist abstraction, and one of his earliest friends, the lesser-known painter André Mare.

A major retrospective of the French artist's work at the Centre Pompidou-Metz highlights how he anticipated the accelerating mechanization of human life. Fernand Léger, “La Noce” (1911–12), oOil on ...

The French artist Fernand Léger’s name might not be the first that comes to mind when thinking about Cubists or Dadaists, yet he was a central figure in exploring the boundaries of these movements ...

To look at early-20th century artists’ conceptualizations of machines and technology is to be astonished, in a very particular way, by how thoroughly transformative the shift from mechanical to ...

Returning to Paris after a stint in the military in World War I, Fernand Leger was besieged by the city’s vitality and modernity found in its pace and its inventions and machines that he devoted ...

Does the name Nadia Khodossievitch-Léger ring a bell? She has a Wikipedia page, but her second husband, the French artist Fernand Léger, has a much longer one. Wikipedia may not be a reliable ...

Madonna is parting with an abstract French painting she’s owned for more than 20 years to support educating girls in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries. It’s expected to bring $5 million to $7 ...

A lost Fernand Léger painting has reappeared after more than a century of being hidden behind another canvas. The work, an unnamed piece from the “Smoke over the Rooftops” series (1911–12), was ...

Alastair Sooke has been covering art for the Telegraph since 2003. He has presented more than 60 hours of TV and radio for the BBC (Modern Masters, Treasures of Ancient Egypt, An Art Lovers’ Guide) ...