Mb4741: Fernand Leger, La Chanteuse de Radio

La Chanteuse de Radio is a lithograph from a larger series produced by Leger in 1959, titled La Ville (Homage to Paris). The series continues the Modernist use of the city and technology to embody modernity, through cafe concerts, theatre scenes and bustling streets: or here, the radio singer. The visual effect of simple, layered blocks of colour adds movement to an already dynamic image and the bold swath of red across the subject's mouth echoes the volume of her singing.

Mb4741 (image/tiff)

Summary

: Mb4741

: Fine Art

: print

: La Chanteuse de Radio

: LÉGER, Fernand

: a colour print on paper, showing: a semi-abstract image of a woman singing into a microphone, amongst a decorative design in primary colours, and orange and green, suggestive of a Parisian interior; edition no 81/180; this work is plate 26 in the series 'La Ville', a portfolio comprising 29 colour lithographs, produced between 1954-59, with a title page and list of plates, and published by Tériade, Paris, 1959; the intention was to show the ways in which the city works and plays and laughs and lives - a modern Homage to Paris

Mb4741: Fernand Leger, La Chanteuse de Radio

Planographic

European Post-War Printmaking: Artists' Experiments

Current Location

: circa 1950

: 1955

: 1954-1959

: Presented by Miss Kit Gunton, 1960.

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