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Leger: Artist and Man. The Tender Realist
Berger, John | May 19, 1956 issue

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The death of Fernand Leger in August 1955 prompted very little comment in Great Britain and the U.S. He was accorded his due as one of the obvious leaders of the modern movement — but that was all. There was no suggestion that a great was being mourned. Only an original but rather mechanical painter had died. In France it was very different. Men in every kind of position paid their respects. This might be explained by different national conventions. But what emerged from all these French tributes was the warmth, the affection and unpretentiousness for which Leger as a man and artist stood in contemporary European culture.

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LEGER, Fernand; PAINTERS; DEATH; CONGRESSES & conventions; ARTISTS; CULTURE
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