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PAINTING FOR THE CORBUSIAN HOME:



       FERNAND LEGER'S ARCHITECTURAL PAINTINGS, 1924-26

                                                                                      Christopher Green


       On 10 July 1925, three months        redundant, but in its living-room   painting, Le Balustre, but it was
       after the opening of the hugely      the hub of his ideal vision of daily   conceived as an element perfectly
       extravagant Exposition International   life - were beautifully hand-     attuned to its architectural context,
       des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the    crafted paintings by himself (as    and it is the nature of the
       Pavillon de L'Esprit Nouveau was     Charles-Edouard Jeanneret),         relationship between painting and
       opened as the Purist contribution.   Amédée Ozenfant, and Fernand        architecture thus declared that is the
       It was Le Corbusier's attempt to     Léger. Léger's offering for at least   theme of this article.'
       make hand-crafted luxury             part of the time was an easel









































































                 Le Balustre 1925
                 Oil on canvas, 51x 381 in.
                 Museum of Modern Art, New York
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