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...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...
...equal number of foreign students. Ostensibly the Union is devoted to a serious eight-week study of international relations. But Mrs. Hadden, who is thought frivolous by many of her serious-minded charges, provides a breath less round of teas, receptions, dinners, mountain climbs, trips to Italy or Ger many. This year she has raised enough money to house her Union in a new villa in the shadow of the League's new Palais des Nations...
...ransom bill at an uptown Manhattan filling station; he had $20 of the ransom money on him when arrested and $14.590 more was found in his garage. 2) Isidor Fisch, Hauptmann's partner in random business ventures, used ransom money to pay his passage back to Ger many, where Fisch died of tuberculosis in 1933. 3) The handwriting on the note left in the baby's crib and subsequent ransom notes tallies with the handwriting on Hauptmann's automobile license application. 4) The man who wrote the ransom notes delivered to Dr. Condon the sleeping suit worn...