Buttner, Philippe et al. FERNAND LEGER: Paris-New York. 208 pp., 190 color and 11 b&w illustrations. 4to, boards. Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 2008.
Exhibition: Basel, Beyeler Foundation.
This catalogue covers the artist's entire oeuvre, from the Cubist-influenced early work to the later large-format paintings. Special attention is paid to the American dimension of Léger's oeuvre, and the volume traces his impact on American artists--primarily on Roy Lichtenstein and Ellsworth Kelly, but also on other late twentieth-century artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Al Held, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol.