Kubism
That is why the human figure has remained willfully inexpressive
throughout the evolution of my work".[16] As the first painter to take as his idiom the imagery
of the machine age, and to make the objects of consumer society the subjects of his paintings,
Léger has been called a progenitor of Pop art.[17]
He was active as a teacher for many years. Among his pupils were Nadir Afonso, Robert
Colescott, Charlotte Gilbertson, Hananiah Harari, Asger Jorn, Beverly Pepper, Victor
Reinganum, Marcel Mouly and George L. K. Morris.
In 1952, a pair of Léger murals was installed in the General Assembly Hall of the United
Nations headquarters in New York, New York.
In 1960, the Musée Fernand Léger was opened in Biot, Alpes-Maritimes,France.
In November 2003, his painting, La femme en rouge et vert sold for $22,407,500 United
States dollars. His sculptures have been selling in excess of 8 million dollars.
In August 2008, one of Léger's paintings owned by Wellesley College's Davis Museum,
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