Still Life

Fernand Léger

1929 · Oil on canvas · Modern and Contemporary Art

This work belongs to Léger's "objects in space" series of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Although overlapping forms give the appearance of a flattened collage, volume is indicated by the shading on the sculpted hand and the undulating surface of the two-toned leaf. The interplay of space, along with the monumental scale of man-made and natural objects within the frame, reveals the artist's current interest in film techniques.

Artist

Fernand Léger

Date

1929

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967