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France and Switzerland 17 19 Fernand Leger
Fernando Botero Leaves and fruits (1st version) 1927
Les soeurs 1969 Oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm
Oil on canvas, 76 x 86 in. 20 Fernand Leger
Botero, born 1932 in Medellin, Colombia, Composition 1937
had his first one-man show at Bogota in Oil on canvas, 65 x 92 cm.
1951. He has since shown all over the US, From July to September Galerie Beyeler,
Germany and Spain, his most recent Basel will have a Leger exhibition with
exhibition being at the Center for Inter- paintings of all periods of his work,
American Relations Art Gallery, New York starting with fine paintings of 1912-14 of
this year. This painting is from an exhibi- the Contraste de Forme period. Some
tion of Botero's work at the Claude Bernard masterpieces of his mechanical period
Galerie, Paris until September 30. 1918/21 will be included, in which Leger
18 Albert Gleizes was a pioneer. The exhibition contains
Composition 1921 about 50 works.
Oil on canvas, 65 x 92 cm.
Gleizes' paintings are on show at the Galerie
d'Art Moderne, Basle, from July to
September.