Word: legere
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...collection ranges from the Norwegian Edvard Munch to Canada's Pollock-like abstract expressionist, Jean-Paul Riopelle. Bonnard. Villon, Matisse, Picasso, Leger, Poliakoff and Rouault are all represented. One of Paul Klee's best-known works. Seven O'Clock over the Roofs, looks like a toy town built with brown and greenish blocks. Oslo had never seen a finer group of Juan Crises, nor had it been exposed to Surrealist Max Ernst...
...Alexis Saint-Léger Léger, 73, a diplomat who wrote poetry in secret after his day's work at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris, where he served for years as Secretary-General of the French Foreign Ministry. ''Is this true, Leger, that, as people say, you write poetry in your spare time?" asked Aristide Briand of his faithful assistant. "It is." replied the writer firmly, "an imposture...
...Washington phone book, he remained plain "Alexis Leger." When a publisher requested poems for an anthology, he replied: "My name does not belong to letters." Disagreeing, the Swedish Academy last week awarded Saint-John Perse the 1960 Nobel Prize for Literature...
...Leger's early work has a rugged texture, and gruff and brusque approach to subject matter that his smooth-surfaced later pictures lack. TheSmokers of 1911 and Variations of Form of 1913 show this style at its most robust and most assertive. Their power is unparalleled in the rest of the show...
...control of Mandrian and vigor of Leger, Giacometti and Chagall are the only significant assets of this sprawling show. For the most part, it gives one the impression that modern artists are sloppy and devoid of imagination. Though such is not the case at all, the till-now reticent benefactors of the Museum of Fine Arts presumably don't know this. Needless to say, the present exhibition is not going to enlighten them...