Léger, peintre de la couleur. Nouveau parcours des collections" exhibition

Throughout his work, the painter showed a real passion for pure colour, which he used in an infinite variety of combinations and variations, in a wide range of media: drawings, ceramics, stained glass, sets for the world of entertainment and architecture.
After his early works, marked by the influence of Impressionism, Léger joined Cubism in the 1910s and distinguished himself from the movement's two pioneers, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, by his desire to introduce pure colour into...