This book was published on the occasion of the discovery of the painting "Smoke over the rooftops" by the Triton Collection Foundation.
Bibliografie etc (annotatie)
List of exhibited works
Samenvatting (annotatie)
Between 1909 and 1914, Fernand Léger developed into one of the foremost Cubists. An important role in that development was played by a series of paintings he made in 1911-1912, the so-called Fumées sur les toits (Smoke Over Rooftops). These works depict the view from his Paris studio, where he looked out over rooftops with plumes of smoke drifting above. He seized upon the contrast between soft, ever changing clouds of smoke and hard, angular architectural masses as a means of paving the way to a more abstract and radical artistic language. Several years ago a previously unknown painting was discovered on the back of a canvas by Léger in the Triton Collection Foundation. That discovery prompted this publication, which also examines the influence exerted on Léger by such artists as Cézanne, Picasso and Braque. In cooperation with the Triton Collection Foundation and the Kröller-Müller Museum
Fernand Léger and the rooftops of Paris
: exhibition, The Netherlands, Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum, 19 November 2022 - 2 April 2023 / Sjraar Van Heugten, Gwendolyn Boevé-Jones ; foreword : Marijke Cordia-van der Laan ; coordination : Ronny Gobyn [en 4 anderen] ; design : Jurgen Persijn ; translation : Diane Webb ; copy-editing : Kate Bell ; colour seperations, printing and binding : Graphius. - Ghent : Tijdsbeeld, 2022. - 101 pagina's
: illustraties ; 31 cm. - This book was published on the occasion of the discovery of the painting "Smoke over the rooftops" by the Triton Collection Foundation. - ISBN 9789490880408 : 29,90 EUR.
