Word: leger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PICASSO, BRAQUE, GRIS, LEGER: DOUGLAS COOPER COLLECTING CUBISM, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. More than 80 representative works acquired by a friend of the artists, ranging from Picasso's Three Figures Under a Tree (1907-08) to Fernand Leger's 1936 painting Composition. Jan. 31 to April...
...romantic lines of my youth," sighs a middle-aged Moscow housewife. "We would line up at Sokolniki Park to see the first American exhibition, where Khrushchev debated Nixon. Or at the Pushkin Museum to see paintings by Fernand Leger. What wonderful times we had! Not like in these horrible lines today...
...show's subtitle, "Picasso, Leger, De Chirico and the New Classicism 1910-1930," only hints at the size of the field it covers. Its broad subject is the classical revival that spread through South European art -- mainly French, Italian and Spanish -- in the wake of World War I and formed a kind of counterweight to the fragmentation of cubism and feverish alienation of dada, expressionism and surrealism...