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...Underwater “Phantoms” hover on a pink seabed painted by Rita Kernn-Larsen, Danish student of Fernand Léger....
...“X-ray black and white, but filled with books and papers, delicate white crochet and photographs.”...
...Fernand Léger, Jean Cocteau, Francis Picabia and Man Ray also lived there, and Marc Chagall, Raoul Dufy, Henri Matisse and Amedeo Modigliani were nearby....
...Throughout her career, innumerable artists captured her likeness, from Man Ray to Picasso and Warhol....
...An example here is Giacomo Balla’s “Abstract Speed” (1912), where intersecting rays and overlapping spirals realise the very essence of velocity....
..., Man Ray, Brancusi; animated depictions of bohemian elegance at the Café du Dôme; innovative shots such as an empty “Jardin des Tuileries” in winter sun, composed of the looping shadows of railings and...
...Whether his cocktails were a match is unrecorded, but in 1941-43 Léger added murals to jazz up the house....
...It’s Hervé Léger!”). The media pounced on the opportunity for scandal-sheet glee mixed with smugger-than-thou moralising. The celebrity culture gets no dopier, nor more depressing....
...Works by Chagall, Léger, Miró and Man Ray are also displayed. Continues until April 25....
...Works by artists such as Picasso and Léger add context. Exhibition continues until May 9....
...It’s where I have my black Steinway and a Man Ray chair. Do you have other homes? In 1999 I built a four-storey, hilltop house overlooking Lake Zurich....
...The best took the idea of jazz itself as inspiration, such as Picasso’s lovely cover for Stravinsky’s Ragtime, dated 1921, the cubist shadows of Man Ray’s photographs, Matisse’s subtle curves and Léger’s...
...Jean Cocteau, Man Ray, Frederick Keisler, Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian and Theo Van Doesburg all attended one of these soirées....
...There are even unexpected appearances by continental greats such as Léger, Severini and Derain....
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