NYC - Metropolitan Museum of Art: Fernand Léger's Woman with a Cat

NYC - Metropolitan Museum of Art: Fernand Léger's Woman with a Cat
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Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker.

He was a cubist whose specialty was a mechanical style. He favored tubular geometric forms in his cubist renderings.

In 1924, in collaboration with Man Ray, Léger produced and directed the iconic and Futurism-influenced film, Ballet Mécanique (Mechanical Ballet). Neither abstract nor narrative, it is a series of images of a woman's lips and teeth, close-up shots of ordinary objects, and repeated images of human activities and machines in rhythmic movement.

In November 2003, his painting, La femme en rouge et vert, sold for 22 million United States dollars. His sculptures have been selling in excess of 8 million dollars.