Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little way down 57th Street, the recently established Bignou Galleries also had on view a Monet, several Cézannes and, as No. 1 headliner, a picture listed as among the seven greatest canvases by Edouard Manet, Le Linge ("Rinsing the Wash"). Just imported to the U. S., it was for sale for more than...
With a red-hot speech of which this was the climax beefy Edouard Daladier challenged the leadership of beefier Edouard Herriot last week at the annual caucus of France's great balance-of-power party, the Radical Socialists...
...Herriot's task last week to win re-election as Party Leader with nothing to offer but his traditional platform of Patience. Such a keynote can be sounded with effect only by a great orator and Edouard Herriot is of the greatest. When Orator Herriot had done with PATIENCE it glowed mellow and desired by all. Without a dissenting voice he was re-elected Leader for the fourth consecutive year by acclamation...
...elderly architects who still believed in tradition went to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week to listen to the first U. S. lecture of a lean, excitable Swiss in gaudy tweeds and enormously thick horn-rimmed spectacles. The lecturer's name was Charles-Edouard Jeanneret. The traditionalists were outnumbered three to one by excited modernists" and lion-hunting socialites, because M. Jeanneret, 47, better known under his professional name of Le Corbusier, has had more effect than any living man on the development of modern architecture, and has become the patron saint of a whole school...
...Charles-Edouard Jeanneret likes to say that his thick glasses were already on his nose when he was born. That event occurred near Geneva in 1888 where his father, from whom he inherits his passion for machinery, was a prosperous watchmaker. He traveled widely, studying architecture in Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Rome, finally set up shop in Paris just before the War. Commissions being slow, he turned to painting and writing essays for art magazines. In 1921 he adopted his mother's family name, Le Corbusier, but still signs Jeanneret to the Léger-like abstractions he paints...