{"id":12827,"date":"2025-12-22T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=12827"},"modified":"2025-12-17T08:11:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:11:44","slug":"fernand-leger-typographer-at-the-met-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/22\/fernand-leger-typographer-at-the-met-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernand Leger, &#8216;Typographer&#8217; at the Met Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sotheby\u2019s iconic sale last month of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/it\/press-releases\/lauder-display-2025\">Leonard Lauder\u2019s collection<\/a> is now history, but the collector\u2019s taste in Cubist masterpieces can still be appreciated in the Met Museum\u2019s installation of works he gifted by Picasso, Braque, Gris and Leger.\u00a0 Here, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/500432\">Fernand Leger<\/a>\u2019s huge, abstracted painting features a worker dressed in red and wearing a round cap typesetting large red and white letters.\u00a0 Part of a display that includes a cluster of works presented as they were displayed in Lauder\u2019s own home, the multi-gallery installation gives invaluable insights into the development of early abstraction. (On view at the Met Museum on the Upper East Side).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2274px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/1825ad1a-11bc-af96-36a3-8a2c5fcefa4e.jpg\" alt=\"An abstract painting with forms that suggest a figure in a round hat standing before two large letters.\" width=\"2274\" height=\"3070\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fernand Leger, Composition (The Typographer), oil on canvas, 1918-19.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sotheby\u2019s iconic sale last month of Leonard Lauder\u2019s collection is now history, but the collector\u2019s taste in Cubist masterpieces can still be appreciated in the Met Museum\u2019s installation of works he gifted by Picasso, Braque, Gris and Leger.\u00a0 Here, Fernand Leger\u2019s huge, abstracted painting features a worker dressed in red and wearing a round cap &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/22\/fernand-leger-typographer-at-the-met-museum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fernand Leger, &#8216;Typographer&#8217; at the Met Museum&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[8,4534,3924,11584,11583,4056,33,11585],"class_list":["post-12827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-collection","tag-cubism","tag-fernand-leger","tag-leonard-lauder","tag-metmuseum","tag-painting","tag-typographer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3kT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12832,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12827\/revisions\/12832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}