Kubism
England), Palazzo Cavour (Turin, Italy), Palazzo Ruspoli (Rome), the Peggy Guggenheim
Collection (Venice) and the Philadelphia Museum of Art are among the public collections
holding works by Robert Delaunay.
Jazz expert Charles Delaunay is Robert and Sonia's son. Charles continued to devote his
pieces to his mother and father after they were deceased.
Fernand Léger
Fernand Léger photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1936
February 4, 1881
Born
Argentan, Orne
August 17, 1955 (aged 74)
Died
Gif-sur-Yvette
Nationality French
Field painting, printmaking and film maker
Movement Tubism, Cubism, Modernism
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (February 4, 1881 August 17, 1955) was a French painter,
sculptor, and filmmaker.
Biography
Léger was born in the Argentan, Orne, Basse-Normandie, where his father raised cattle.