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ReviewVisual Arts
Americans in Paris — the artists who blossomed in the postwar freedom of France
...André Breton, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian and many other luminaries decamped to America so that, by the time the war ended, New York had become the new capital of art....
March 20, 2024
Enuma Okoro
The half-forgotten art of listening
...The 1883 painting “Listening to Schumann” by Belgian painter Fernand Khnopff speaks to me of the power of music as respite. A woman sits on an armchair in a parlour....
April 14, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Luke Edward Hall
What else can I do with my garden office?
...This is another painted room, with trompe l’oeil decoration by Fernand Renard....
January 8, 2024
Interiors
Why mosaics are having a moment
...The unblemished concrete walls of Modernist architecture were a blank canvas for abstract murals by Fernand Léger, Marc Chagall or Georges Braque, proving that less is not always more....
March 1, 2024
FT Asset Management
Farewell, Jacob Rothschild
...Art of the Everyday, an exploration of the ‘still life’ genre, featuring works by artists including Andy Warhol, Fernand Léger and Roy Lichtenstein....
March 4, 2024
The Art Market
Rediscovered Rembrandt valued at €15,000 now offered for £15mn
...Fernand Léger’s celebratory “Le 14 juillet” (1912-13) has a $15mn-$20mn estimate and comes as a two-for-one work: conservators at the Triton Collection Foundation recently uncovered an earlier painting by...
October 5, 2023
FT Live
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Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewFiction
Mirror of Our Sorrows by Pierre Lemaitre — the spoils of war
...Meanwhile, Fernand, who has stolen a bag of high-denomination banknotes, is just as culpable as any of the men he is guarding....
January 19, 2023
FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
House museums #11: Arthur Rimbaud
...The photograph by Carjat has itself inspired other works of art — you can see portraits by Picasso, Giacometti, Fernand Léger, Sonia Delaunay, and photographers Robert Mapplethorpe and David Wojnarowicz....
April 8, 2023
Fashion
The hunt for Andy Warhol’s rare fabric designs
...Many Warhol textile designs were manufactured by Fuller Fabrics, a mass-market producer whose Modern Masters series of the mid-1950s included designs commissioned from Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger and other...
April 10, 2023
FT SeriesHTSI spring design special 2023
The passion and politics of my mother, Charlotte Perriand
...As a young girl, Perriand-Barsac remembers both Le Corbusier and Jeanneret as a part of Perriand’s extended family, which also included her close friend, the French painter Fernand Léger....
April 16, 2023
Watches & Jewellery
Patcharavipa augments vintage watch and jewellery pieces with Thai gold
...which reflects Patcharavipa’s various design influences: the architecture of London and Paris, where she has her headquarters and a showroom respectively, 1950s French artists such as Jean Dubuffet and Fernand...
October 7, 2022
Moral Money
Catalysing carbon emission cuts at UNGA Premium content
...China’s treatment of the Uyghur Muslim ethnic group can no longer go “unpunished,” said Fernand de Varennes, the UN’s special rapporteur on minority rights at an event in New York yesterday....
September 20, 2022
Letter
Letter: Plaudits for the FT and its ‘longue durée’ coverage
...In 1963, Fernand Braudel, the famous French historian who coined the phrase, asked if it was possible to simultaneously convey the conspicuous, dramatic changes in history and the submerged “almost silent...
March 11, 2022
HTSIThe HTSI arts special, autumn 2022
Inside Maison Colbert: at home with the modern surrealists
...Their own impressive art collection includes Dalí, of course, as well as a 3D ceramic by Fernand Léger and pieces by Jenny Holzer and the British artist and filmmaker Jeff Keen, which are hung in a very...
September 25, 2022
ReviewPhotography
The brash, bleak urban visions of photographer William Klein
...There, he studied with Fernand Léger and dabbled in painting. (He also stole a copy of Evans’ American Photographs from the American Library.)...
July 8, 2022
FT Live
Financial Times @COP
FT Live events coinciding with COP
Monday, 11 NovemberBaku, Azerbaijan
ReviewVisual Arts
How painter Robert Colescott used racist stereotypes to make America think
...Later, he received a BA and an MA from Berkeley and studied painting in Paris with Fernand Léger, whose advice to abandon abstraction led him to focus on the human body....
July 13, 2022
ReviewVisual Arts
Maverick artist Alexander Archipenko rediscovered at the Estorick Collection
...The “Madonna” in London is a bronze, but Archipenko painted the original plaster bright red, showed it to the futurist Umberto Boccioni in 1912, then sold it to the “tubist” painter Fernand Léger....
May 6, 2022
InterviewLunch with the FT
Orhan Pamuk: ‘Erdoğan cannot curtail anyone’s voice any more’
...He then launches into a rambling explanation about his request, made in advance, for a dessert of figs, “so that I can make a comment about [Fernand] Braudel”....
September 16, 2022
Architecture
The pros and cons of stone buildings
...In France, the architect Gilles Perraudin has been building blocks of flats, public buildings and private homes in massive stone for more than 25 years, following the lead of Fernand Pouillon, a groundbreaker...
June 17, 2022
ReviewVisual Arts
Surrealism Beyond Borders at Tate Modern — realm of dreams and incongruity
...Underwater “Phantoms” hover on a pink seabed painted by Rita Kernn-Larsen, Danish student of Fernand Léger....
February 26, 2022
The Long ViewBrendan Greeley
MiamiCoin, a currency without sovereignty
...Fernand Braudel, who wrote vast economic histories of medieval Europe, described financial skills as an “inheritance”, slowly accumulated through daily commercial practice....
November 20, 2021
News in-depthGlobal migration
Refugee odyssey to UK reveals complexity of Europe’s smuggling networks
...Fernand Gontier, chief of France’s border police, this week told a press conference in Calais that his officers had encountered smugglers from Vietnam — one of the wealthiest origin countries for migrants...
December 3, 2021
House & Home
Karl Lagerfeld, a man possessed — by possessions
...He decorated an apartment in Place Saint-Sulpice in Paris as an homage to the 1924 Marcel L’Herbier film L’Inhumaine, with its sets designed by Robert Mallet-Stevens and Fernand Léger, furniture by Pierre...
December 3, 2021
ReviewDesign
Charlotte Perriand: the thrill of the chaise at London’s Design Museum
...Beachcombing with Fernand Léger, the driftwood and shells profoundly influenced her new direction towards more natural shapes; her wooden-topped tables retain the forms of the trunks and create more convivial...
June 29, 2021
Visual Arts
The Giacomettis — a family of artists gets its due
...Nicolas Gitton explains how this was the first American-style private foundation in France — technically, not a museum — and came into being in collaboration with many of the artists whose work is here: Fernand...
August 12, 2021

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