From the late 1920s, the French avant-garde painter Fernand Léger shifted from the frenetic fractures of his earlier cubist compositions to an abstraction of more surreal formations. Using bold, defined shapes, he painted odd juxtapositions of objects and block colours, brought together in connections that seem inexplicable and mysterious as showcased in The bicycle (1930) from the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection.

Poster size print
Paper size: H100 x W70cm
Image size: H79 x W62cm
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Fernand Léger (France 1881-1955)
The bicycle 1930
Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 50.8cm
Art Gallery of New South Wales, gift of Mrs HV Evatt in memory of the late Dr HV Evatt 1966
© Estate of Fernand Léger/ADAGO/Copyright Agency
Poster © Art Gallery of New South Wales