Bridge

Fernand Léger · 1908?

This is Bridge, an early Léger, painted around nineteen oh eight — before the machine forms he became known for. The landscape is already being pushed toward the tubes and cylinders that would take over his work within a few years.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 36 1/2 x 28 5/8" (92.7 x 72.6 cm) · Credit The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection

Hanging beside it in Gallery 503: Man with a Guitar, Samovar

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, The Kitchen, The Spring, The Passage from Virgin to Bride, Synchromy in Blue, Spider

More by Fernand Léger here: Exit the Ballets Russes, The City, Three Women, Mural Painting, Fragment of a Nut