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La racine noire
Fernand Léger (Argentan, 1881–1955)
1948
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- height 500 mm x width 655 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Bruna admired the work of the French avant-garde artist Léger, because he had separated the planes of colour from the lines and let them move independently over the picture plane. As Bruna put it: ‘this way you can look twice’
