books0977:Femme portant une statuette (1925). Fernand Léger (French, 1881-1955). Oil on canvas.This
books0977:Femme portant une statuette (1925). Fernand Léger (French, 1881-1955). Oil on canvas.This is a new kind of woman. She has only one reality, that which her creator Léger has bestowed upon her: she is a pictorial object. Leger has pared down the appearance of the female form to the absolute essentials. She is an idealized, purist conception of woman, and as such stands for all women. She is the painted embodiment of the sculpted profile—presented here as if it had been tooled on a lathe—which she holds before her. -- source link