From 1949 Fernand Léger began to work in ceramic making reliefs mosaics and sculptural forms in his distinctive style. He created a number of large ...in painted ceramic. The Musée Fernand Léger in Biot has a large collection of the ceramics on permanent view. A similar version of Figure Polychrome

and Fernand Léger. Over the course of his life he was taken by the Sigiriya Frescoes the murals at temples in Kandy and Indian Kalighat Pat and miniature

to their broad luminously shadowed contours (so admired by Fernand Léger) but also their emblematic simplicity and their repertory of ‘impersonal’ quasi-

came across while in London. His use of tubular shapes also reminds us of the works of Fernand Léger. The unusual dual perspective that displays

that pursuing an education in the vibrant artistic hub would help him overcome his own shortcomings as a young artist. Kumar trained under André Lhote and Fernand Léger both influential French painters of the time. During his stay he also mingled with several prominent left-leaning writers and poets including

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