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...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....
...He was also a member of France’s Economic, Social and Environmental Council from 1993 to 2010....
...“It’s not easy to come to a country such as France or the US as an immigrant.”...
...When he died from cancer aged 37, his legendary status in his native France was sealed....
...Matisse, Chagall, Cocteau, Léger, Judy Chicago and Josef Albers all designed wonderful windows....
...Braque — and just a short climb from La Colombe d’Or restaurant where Léger and Picasso famously traded paintings....
...“It is an enormous event,” says Pierre Mothes, vice-president of Sotheby’s, France, who is running the sale. “He was a world icon....
...is here: Fernand Léger and Alexander Calder were among those who made pieces specially for the site....
...She spent two years in Japan, having left France in 1940 to avoid the German occupation....
...Ceramic plate by Ceramiche De Simone £445 This brand produces hand-painted designs inspired by the works of Picasso, Klee and Léger. artemest.com ‘Reflet’ screen by Cristina Celestino for Maison Matisse...
...The Musée Granet, with its Cézannes, Picasso, Leger, Giacometti, is minutes away and reopened; Aix is more fortunate than neighbouring Arles, whose Rencontres photography festival is cancelled, and Marseille...
...still closed to enforce social distancing), a vixen is raising a family in the Père-Lachaise cemetery and two fallow deer were filmed strolling along the empty streets of the Paris suburb of Boissy-Saint-Léger...
...The move to sell the works was “primarily an ecological decision”, says Pierre Martin-Vivier, vice-president at Christie’s France....
...It’s symptomatic of cultural vacuity within the investment industry that its biggest contribution to the artistic realm is the saying: “sell in May and go away, come back again on St Leger’s Day”....
...There are lamps and sculptures by Isamu Noguchi, the Japanese/American artist who Perriand was responsible for bringing to France, and 50 works by her collaborator Fernand Léger, culminating in a painting...
...The investment rhyme facing scrutiny this week is: “Sell in May and go away, come back on St Leger Day.”...
...Richardson was awarded France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011 and was knighted in 2012....
...This area is a crossroads for art and ideas: Léger, Picasso and Cézanne all spent time here. I’m constantly inspired by the light: the play of the sun through the pine trees, the shadows across a pool....
...“Four years without colour” was how Fernand Léger described the first world war....
...result — a collection of sculptural jewels designed to make a feature of the hearing aid — has just claimed the Swarovski Fashion Accessories Prize at the Hyères International Festival in the south of France...
...Born Hervé Peugnet on May 30 1957 in Bapaume in northern France, Leroux moved to Paris at 18 to study at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts but dropped out to train as a milliner and hairdresser...
...Wanting to sign up the biggest names in modern art, Ms Rawnsley hired a light aircraft and flew to France, where within days she had persuaded Raoul Dufy, Fernand Léger and Henri Matisse to take part....
...The Ashmolean’s Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France is a connoisseur’s dream exhibition presenting that collection....
...Clément Hervieu-Léger and William Christie’s new production of Monsieur de Pourceaugnac is a game attempt to find balance....
...Fernand Léger, Jean Cocteau, Francis Picabia and Man Ray also lived there, and Marc Chagall, Raoul Dufy, Henri Matisse and Amedeo Modigliani were nearby....
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