The City (La Ville) | |
Artist: | Fernand Léger |
Year: | 1919 |
Medium: | Oil on canvas |
Height Metric: | 231.1 |
Width Metric: | 298.4 |
Metric Unit: | cm |
Imperial Unit: | in |
Museum: | Philadelphia Museum of Art |
City: | Philadelphia |
The City (French: La Ville) is a 1919 painting by French painter and sculptor Fernand Léger.[1] The painting is Cubist in style and is now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[2] Albert Eugene Gallatin donated the piece to the museum in 1952 and it has also been shown at the Guggenheim Museum.[1] [2] In reviews of the Guggenheim exhibit, both The City and other works in the show were praised.[3]