At the time he made this drawing Leger's work was poised between the experiments with pictorial space and fragmented form which characterise early Cubism, and his later more explicitly figurative subjects on the theme of modern life. Here he has used a monochrome wash to establish the structure of the final composition.
![Eléments décoratifs [Assiette], Leger, 1910](https://pop-perf-assets.s3.gra.io.cloud.ovh.net/joconde/50190072873/0118737.jpg)
