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...common thing to say about the late Fernand Léger that he was the artist of the machine age-but he was not entirely a man of his time. He knew poverty as a child, was gassed in World War I, had to flee before the invading Nazis in World War II. But there is little of death or destruction in his work, and if he ever knew despair, he never showed it. Léger so reveled in form and color that it was as if he had lived in a world without a single shadow...
Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum last week put up a large and dazzling Léger show revolving around five major paintings-The Divers, The Country Outing, The Builders, The Cyclists and The Grand Parade-each of which is the climax of scores of paintings and sketches on the same theme. These themes preoccupied Léger for more than ten years before his death, at 74, in 1955. The climactic paintings (he called them "états définitijs") are among his finest, and at least one, Grand Parade, may be his masterpiece...
...from Architecture. Léger's artistic beginnings were in architecture; he was apprenticed at 16 to an architect in Caen, and he went on to serve in the office of another architect in Paris before he embarked on a painting career of his own. He passed through a brief phase of impressionism, but rejected it as belonging to a "naturally melodious" era gone...
...like children who had a doll that could be taught tricks," she remembers. She began studying drawing and painting in earnest at the age of eleven, took up sculpture at 16, moved to Paris at 19. There she studied under masters: Sculptor Emile Antoine Bourdelle, Painter Fernand Léger, Engraver Stanley Hayter...
...baffling thefts. In the last 19 months there have been six major art robberies on the French Riviera alone. Across the Atlantic, Pittsburgh Collector G. David Thompson's offer to pay $100,000 for the return of ten paintings by Picasso, Dufy, Miró and Léger still stands. Art robbery has proved more contagious even than hijacking planes...