Ceramic plate after Fernand Léger – Titled: A Circus Acrobat with her horse, circa 1950

Ceramic plate after a work by Fernand Léger – Titled: A Circus Acrobat with Her Horse, circa 1950.

Ceramic plate from the Biot factory, signed with initials in the lower right corner and bearing the exclusive stamp of the Fernand Léger Museum in Biot on the back.

Dimensions: Diameter: 24.8 cm – 9.7 in.

Exclusive publisher: Fernand Léger Museum in Biot

Price: $300.00 CAD (Canadian Dollars)

Note: Fernand Léger’s ceramic plates were often created in collaboration with ceramists such as Roland Brice in Biot during the 1950s.

There are also porcelain versions from the Apilco factory.

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Fernand LÉGER (1881 – 1955)

Fernand Leger was a French painter and designer born in Argentan, Normandy in 1881. He started out as apprenticed to an architect at Caen 1897-9.  Moved to Paris in 1900 and worked as architect’s draughtsman and also studying at the École des Arts Décoratifs and the Académie Julian.

He was influenced from 1907 by Cézanne and met Delaunay, Gleizes, Douanier Rousseau and others; participated from 1909 in the Cubist movement and developed a semi-abstract Cubist idiom with dynamic contrasting tubular forms. He had his very first one-man art exhibition at the Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris, 1912.