The City (Léger)

The City (French: La Ville) is a 1919 painting by French painter and sculptor Fernand Léger.[1]
The painting is Cubist in style and is now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as part of the
collection donated by Albert Eugene Gallatin.[2] Gallatin donated the piece to the museum in
1952 and it has also been shown at the Guggenheim Museum.[1][2] In reviews of the Guggenheim
exhibit, both The City and other works in the show were praised.[3]

The City (La Ville)

Artist Fernand Léger

Year 1919

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions 231.1 cm × 298.4 cm (91.0 in × 117.5 in)

Location Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

 References

1. "The City" (http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/53928.html) . The Philadelphia Museum

of Art. 1 January 1995. Retrieved 22 March 2016.

2. "Front Matter". Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin. 56 (268). 1 December 1961.

3. Canaday, John (4 March 1962). "Léger: Late Works at the Guggenheim Resolve Any Doubts as to His
Achievement" (http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/03/04/83486698.html?pageNumbe
r=123) . The New York Times. Retrieved 22 March 2016.

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