Word: fernande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gets about 7,000 francs per numero for his canvases. From that peak prices drop sharply. In Manhattan last week the Museum of Modern Art gave its first one-man show of the season to an artist rated by most dealers the third or fourth highest priced in France: Fernand Léger. His numéros are worth 1,000 francs apiece, and most of his canvases are large...
...painter ever sold himself more completely to the theory of a mechanistic art for a mechanical age than has Fernand Léger, but the important fact about his character to remember is that he is a Norman, a farmer's son and a dirt farmer himself when he has the opportunity. The little farm near Lisieux which belonged to his father, he now owns and operates with the proceeds of his painting, distilling a fine applejack and stabling twelve cows in his barns. The machine age always fascinated him because it is so different from the life he knows best...
...Fernand Léger served three years as a stretcher bearer in the War, figured out in his own mind the sort of painting he wanted to do. Humanity appalled him. For more than 20 years he has been at work making confused, elaborate patterns of gears, wheels, lamps, streaks and segments of color, at about $2.50 a square inch. Tycoons and esthetes have paid that price, for all Leger abstractions have a technical slickness comforting to men of affairs, all make excellent decorations...
...trial opened: "It would be a shame to send Joan to prison. She is young and besides she is very pretty. I am not going to ask a prison sentence, merely a fine on principle." The principle had its living, vibrant incarnation in Miss Warner's accuser, M. Fernand Boverat, 37, striped-trousered, bespectacled, correct, relentless...
...figured cannily that the Chamber and would-be Premiers who asked for "full powers" would wear each other out. This Laval guess was correct. In a furious three-day wrangle the Deputies rejected every likely statesman who attempted to dominate it, as it had rejected its own President (Speaker) Fernand Bouisson. When President Lebrun finally had to send for Pierre Laval again, that Senator was daisy-fresh and ready to work all night whipping a Cabinet together while everyone else was dead beat, exhausted, pliant...