Roderick Conway-Morris

The tubular joys of Fernand Léger

As a new Venetian exhibition shows, the Cubist was a pioneer in poster design and experimental film as well as a painter

Fernand Léger ‘s ‘The City’, 1919 [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy]

  • Léger: A Vision of the Contemporary City 1910–1930

    Correr Museum, Venice, until 2 June

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