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World War II. From Holland came Piet Mondrian, from Germany Hans Hofmann and George Grosz, from France Fernand Leger, Andre Masson, Arshile Gorky and Max Ernst, providing the new generation of U.S. artists with direct links to Cubism ana Surrealism...
...fact, some clerics in the diocese openly wonder why Leger bothered to come. The well-staffed leprosarium was founded by Bishop Loucheur and Sister Fran?oise Romaine 15 years ago, and now treats 3,000 patients at four clinics. Loucheur has also built a cathedral, numerous schools and 186 miles of roads, and has baptized 43,000 Africans. Léger's position is also ambiguous in the Cameroon capital of Yaounde, where he poses a protocol problem. "As a Cardinal," explains one official, "he outranks every diplomat in the country...
These days, Léger spends most of his time traveling through Cameroon to preside at confirmation ceremonies. He is also laying plans for a new center for all kinds of handicapped Africans. This fall, Leger will return briefly to Montreal to receive Canada's $50,000 Royal Bank Award for humanitarian achievement. Léger has earmarked the money for his center, for which he hopes to raise an additional $1,000,000 in Canada. He regards the center as a kind of beau geste that will inspire others to help Africa help itself. "I have always believed...
...clock during 1960, Private Jean-Pierre Ponelle of the French army reported in smock and fatigues to an art studio on the military compound at Baden-Baden. Shortly afterward, his commander, General Paul Vanuxem, appeared and watched for hours as Ponelle, a onetime student of Leger, painted a 30-foot, three-paneled canvas glorifying the French army. A few months after Ponelle finished the mammoth triptych, Vanuxem was arrested as a secret leader of the O.A.S. and jailed, winning acquittal only after a two-year fight. The painting he commissioned was installed in a Roman Catholic church on the base...
Though the Maremont collection includes three Leger pictures, three Hun-dertwassers, nine Dubuffets and 33 Klees, many of Maremont's most illustrious acquisitions are sculptures, among them Brancusi's mellifluous bronze Blonde Negress. Much of his art was bought on Maremont's twice-a-year buying trips to Europe. For many years, Maremont and his wife have been fixtures at the Venice Biennale, renting large boats and treating their 90-odd passengers to champagne evenings on the Grand Canal...