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AdmittedFernand Léger · 1919
Here we have The City — a painting by the French artist Fernand Léger, nineteen nineteen. Léger was part of the cubism movement. It's oil on canvas, about 1 by 1.3 meters.
Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 38 1/8 x 51 3/8" (96.8 x 130.5 cm) · Credit Florene May Schoenborn Bequest
Hanging beside it in Gallery 505: Plane, Armored Train in Action
Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Windows, Landscape, Painting, The Three Windows, the Tower and the Wheel, Untitled, The Reservoir, Horta de Ebro
More by Fernand Léger here: Exit the Ballets Russes, Bridge, Three Women, Mural Painting, Fragment of a Nut
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Catalogue record: MoMA Collection Notes written for momap — not MoMA curatorial text.