composition with hands and hats fernand legerIn Composition with Hands and Hats, Fernand Lger orchestrates a singular encounter between everyday objects, fragments of bodies and mechanical forms. Nothing here is narrative: everything rests on the precise arrangement of surfaces and the tension between verticals and curves. The left half of the canvas is dominated by a large red profile, simplified to the extreme, almost hieratic. Around it are scattered a variety of elements: hats lined up in a