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Fine art, La Femme à la Cruche (Woman with a Jug)
is a work by French artist Fernand Léger, originally created in 1928. The image provided is a lithograph created after the original work, engraved by Jacques Villon.
This piece is part of Léger's work from the 1920s, a period when he moved away from purely abstract art to depict more representational scenes. His style, sometimes called "Tubism," is a form of Cubism that features bold, rounded, and cylindrical forms and a mechanistic style. The painting's subject, a woman holding a vase or jug, is one he explored multiple times throughout the decade. The work is characterized by the use of simplified forms and primary colors, which were meant to create solid, enduring images as France recovered from World War I.
The original painting, "Femme à la Cruche," is held in the collection of the Musée National Fernand Léger in Biot, France |
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