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Article: Leger celebrates a new order.(The Home Forum)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 14, 2001
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Byline: Christopher Andreae
Once a painting is finished, what happens to it next doesn't always go down in history. Who owns it? Where is it hung?
But at least two photographs show where "The Baluster," by French artist Fernand Leger, was immediately hung after he painted it in 1925. It wasn't on any old wall. It was on a wall designed by Le Corbusier, the self-proclaimed "Purist" architect.
Between 1918 and 1925, Le Corbusier (with Amadee Ozenfant) propounded a new idealism. "Purism" or "L'Esprit Nouveau" ("The New Spirit") was a post-World War I return to order.
The "Pavillon de L'Esprit Nouveau," in which Leger's painting was ...