Mona Lisa with the keys
Fernand Leger
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Original Title:La Joconde aux Clés -
Date:1930 -
Style:Purism -
Genre:figurative -
Location:Musee National Fernand Leger, Biot, France
Mona Lisa with the keys
Fernand Leger
One day I had painted a bunch of keys on a canvas, my bunch of keys. I didn’t know what to put next to them. I needed something that would be the absolute opposite of a bunch of keys. So when I finished work I went out. I had only walked a few yard when what should I see in a shop windows? A postcard of the Mona Lisa! At once I knew that was what I needed; what could have made a greater contrast to the keys?. ..Then I also added a can of sardines. It was such a strong contrast.
La vie fait de l’Oeuvre de Fernand Léger, Dora Vallier, Cahiers d’Art, 2, 1954, p. 153
