Word: legere
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Only Magritte and Leger - and in his different way, Nadelman. He could take a bowler hat and, perching it on the head of Mercury, give it a classical density as form. The headgear worn by his Man in a Top Hat (1927) has the formal and slightly absurd dignity of an old liner's funnel, played off against the scrolly beard and bronze blade of a nose...
Death Revealed. St.-John Perse, 88, Nobel-prize winning poet who was also a leading diplomat in France for more than 20 years under the name Alexis Leger; in Giens, France. Born on Saint-Léger les Feuilles, an island in the Caribbean owned by his aristocratic family, Leger published his first volume of poetry in 1910, four years before joining the French foreign service. Dark-eyed, mustachioed Leger served as secretary of the French embassy in Peking and later as adviser to Foreign Minister Aristide Briand before becoming the highest permanent official at the Quai d'Orsay...
...Jeanne Leger, an art instructor in Creative and Performing Arts at Radcliffe, is having her works shown at the Dikelman Gallery, 2325 Mass. Ave. in Cambridge. Leger's art is ultra-modern and pretty much abstract...
...roaring inflation. Minutes later, when House Speaker Lucien Lamoureux announced the tally-137 votes in favor of the motion to 123 against*- opposition M.P.s exploded in a roar of delight and littered the green-carpeted chamber with a blizzard of tossed papers. Next day Governor General Jules Leger dissolved Parliament, as Canada's four political parties and 13 million voters geared up for a new national election on July...
...than to make painting X coincide with a known subject." Composition, in short, gives us our sense of reality. In this way, Gris was the most formal of all the cub ists. Picasso's formality was modified by his enormous appetite, Braque's by his aristocratic fervor, Leger's by his blunt populism, but Gris was obsessed by shape and only by shape...