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“... leaving after graduation in 1906 for Paris and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Here she met Fernand Léger, who became an important friend and supporter, though she was criticised for her bold palette (criticism she didn’t take to heart). Exter once told a sceptical Léger that colour was the ...”

“... Should​ the street be considered one of the fine arts?’ Fernand Léger asked in 1928. He was thinking of the objects displayed in Parisian shop windows. Others have been more impressed by junk, debris and things abandoned. The street as both source and inspiration is everywhere apparent in the exhibition at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery (until 1 April), Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-65, in particular the grungy byways of a Lower Manhattan not yet gentrified as SoHo or rebranded as the East Village ...”

“... of the abstract world of the industrial machine, as differently evoked by the Futurists, Fernand Léger and Marcel Duchamp, but little sense of the abstractive force of the mass-produced commodity, the becoming-abstract of capitalist life, as variously explored by Georg Simmel, György Lukács and Alfred Sohn-Rethel. After Greenberg (not to ...”

“... history. One day in 1935 he went to the Museum of Modern Art to see the large retrospective of Fernand Léger. In one of the galleries he noticed another man, looking typically French, who examined the paintings with sufficient attentiveness for Schapiro to go up and offer him some of his own observations. For a while the two walked round ...”

“... 1917, Le Corbusier took on his mantle of radical architectural polemicist. Some four years later, Fernand Léger was reminded of an English vicar when he first saw Le Corbusier, an upright, hatted figure pedalling past a Montparnasse café. Léger became a (rare) lifelong friend of both Le Corbusier and Yvonne ...”

“... longer be left where Alexander leaves it. On the other hand, his account of Pound’s attitude to Fernand Léger is new to me, and fascinating. Peter Robinson’s essay on Pound and Italian art is quite another matter: altogether more ambitious and probing. Out of D.S. Chambers and Michael Baxandall and some Italian scholars Robinson measures up ...”

“... and looking to the Italian Futurists for inspiration. Malevich was more interested in the work of Fernand Léger, whose latest paintings combined Cubism and Futurism: John Golding has construed Malevich’s 1912 painting The Knife Grinder: Principle of Flickering as ‘a marriage between Léger’s Woman in Blue and ...”

“... protest. Not many, I imagine, but some. Most of the Russians, many Dadaists, maybe Diego Rivera, Fernand Léger, and even Picasso (at least for the gesture), some Latin Americans, a few others.MoMA deserves kudos for internationalising its modernist collection and globalising its contemporary presentation, and for adding women artists to the former and ...”

“... Delacroix was a ‘really good bastard’, Caravaggio was too ‘decadent’ and Fernand Léger remained ‘a bit outside the domain of great painting’. Bonnard’s work expressed a ‘potpourri of indecision’ and though Chagall’s ‘feeling for light’ was refined, Picasso wasn’t ‘crazy about those cocks and asses and flying ...”