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The ever-legible Leger
CHRISTINE LINDEY pays tribute to an outstanding artist whose work always aimed to be accessible
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AN EXACT contemporary of Picasso, Fernand Leger was born in 1881 in the Normandy market town of Argentan to an argumentative cattle merchant and a gentle mother.
He lost his father when he was very young and his widowed parent gradually lost most of their possessions. Although Leger’s heart was in painting, she apprenticed him to an architect when he turned 16, believing this to be a more respectable profession. This training in precise draughtsmanship served him well and shines through his mature works.
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