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The Card Party

work by Léger

Also known as: “La Partie de Cartes”

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In Fernand Léger
That year he completed The Card Party, which was based on sketches of his fellow soldiers. He regarded this work as “the first picture in which I deliberately took my subject from our own epoch.”
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