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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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