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Exhibition Review
Norman Foster
07/2023 | 1444 | 165
Pages: 794–797
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Reviewer:
Croft, Catherine (Croft, Catherine)
Subjects
artists:
Foster, Norman / Léger, Fernand / Brancusi, Constantin / Boccioni, Umberto / Ai Weiwei
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
subjects:
Architects / Architecture / Architectural models
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Norman Foster Centre Pompidou, Paris 10th May–7th August | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
20. Lunar Habitat (unrealised project), by Foster + Partners. 2012. (© ESA / Foster + Partners).
Attributed works:
21. Trafalgar Square Masterplan, London, by Foster + Partners. 1995– 2013. (© Foster + Partners; photograph Nigel Young).
Attributed works:
22. Queen Alia International Airport, Jordan, by Foster + Partners. 2005– 13. (© Foster + Partners; photograph Nigel Young).
Exhibition Review
The Colours of Nadia
10/2021 | 1423 | 163
Pages: 941-944
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Reviewer:
Mundy, Jennifer (Mundy, Jennifer)
Subjects
artists:
Khodassievitch (Léger), Nadia
artists:
Léger, Fernand
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Musée de l'Annonciade, St-Tropez, France
subjects:
Russian art / French art / Modernism / Politics / Abstract art / Social realism / Communism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Colours of Nadia Musée de l’Annonciade de Saint-Tropez 3rd July–14th November | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Self-portrait, by Nadia Léger. 1948. Oil on canvas, 91.5 by 65 cm. (Private collection; exh. Musée de l’Annonciade de Saint-Tropez).
Attributed works:
11. Still life, by Nadia Léger. 1949. Oil on canvas, 73 by 100 cm. (Private collection; exh. Musée de l’Annonciade de Saint-Tropez).
Exhibition Review
Die Fäden der Moderne: Matisse, Picasso, Miró und die französischen Gobelins
05/2021 | 1418 | 163
Pages: 457-459
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Reviewer:
Neumann-Golle, Antje (Neumann-Golle, Antje)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
artists:
Picasso, Pablo / Matisse, Henri / Delaunay, Sonia / Bourgeois, Louise / Miró, Joan / Chillida, Eduardo / Le Corbusier / Léger, Fernand / Vasarely, Victor de / Lurçat, Jean
museums and institutions:
Galerie des Gobelins, Paris, France / Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany / Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Netherlands
subjects:
Tapestry (process) / Tapestries / Gobelins Manufactory / Beauvais Tapestry Manufactory / Savonnerie manufactory
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Die F den der Moderne: Matisse, Picasso, Mir  und die franz sischen Gobelins Edited by Roger Diederen. 216 pp. incl. 140 col. ills. (Hirmer, Munich, 2020), €39.90. ISBN 978–3–7774–3456–8. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Women at their toilette, by Pablo Picasso. Gobelins tapestry, designed 1937, second version in colour 1971–77. Wool, 290 by 425 cm. (Mobilier national, Paris;   Succession Picasso / DACS, London, 2021).
Attributed works:
11. Cheyt pyr, by Victor Vasarely. Beauvais tapestry, designed 1975, woven 1977. Wool, 258 by 258 cm. (Mobilier national, Paris;   ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London, 2021).
Attributed works:
12. Chair with Aviation, from Salon de la Guerre, a set of furniture by Robert Bonfils and Maurice Dufr ne. Gobelins tapestry, designed 1922, woven 1925. Wool, silk, beechwood and gilding, 103 by 61 by 52 cm. (Mobilier national, Paris).
Attributed works:
9. Summer, from the series The Seasons, by Jean Lurçat. Aubusson tapestry (Atelier Goubely), designed 1939, woven 1940–41. Wool, 335 by 485 cm. (Mobilier national, Paris;   ADAGP, Paris, and DACS, London, 2021).
Exhibition Review
Marie Cuttoli: The Modern Thread from Miró to Man Ray
12/2020 | 1413 | 162
Pages: 1098-1101
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Reviewer:
Parrish, Sarah (Parrish, Sarah)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
artists:
Cuttoli, Marie / Miró, Joan / Man Ray / Braque, Georges / Derain, André / Dufy, Raoul / Corbusier, Le / Léger, Fernand / Lurçat, Jean / Picasso, Pablo / Rouault, Georges
museums and institutions:
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, United States
subjects:
Tapestry (process) / Fashion / Colonialism / Gender / Modernism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Marie Cuttoli: The Modern Thread from Miró to Man Ray By Cindy Kang. 160 pp. incl. 100 col. ills. (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, and Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2020), £35. ISBN 978–0– 300–25131–9. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
18. Composition with three figures – Fragment, by Fernand Léger. 1932. Oil on canvas, 144.2 by 114.3 cm. (Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris 2020; exh. Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia).
Attributed works:
19. Rhythmic figures (woman and birds), designed by Joan Miró for Myrbor. 1934. Cotton and wool with silk, 195.6 by 175.3 cm. (Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia; © Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris 2020).
Attributed works:
20. Evening dress, embroidery designed by Natalia Goncharova for Myrbor. c.1926. Silk with silk appliqué and metallic thread and wool yarn embroidery (Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Exhibition Review
Fernand Léger: New Times, New Pleasures. Tate Liverpool
03/2019 | 1392 | 161
Pages: 230-233
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Reviewer:
Dalwood, Dexter (Dalwood, Dexter)
Subjects
artists:
Léger, Fernand
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Lithographs / Illustrations
museums and institutions:
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, Great Britain
styles:
Cubist
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Leisure – Homage to Louis David, by Fernand Léger. 1948–49. Canvas, 154 by 185 cm. (Centre Pompidou, Paris; exh. Tate Liverpool).
Attributed works:
2. Trois femmes sur fond rouge, by Fernand Léger. 1927. Canvas, 138.5 by 95.5 cm. (Musée d’Art Moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole; exh. Tate Liverpool).
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3. Essential joys, new pleasures. Pavilion of Agriculture, Paris, International Exhibition, by Fernand Léger and Charlotte Perriand. 1937/2011. Acrylic paint, collage and print on paper on board, 350 by 941 cm. (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London; exh. Tate Liverpool).
Exhibition Review
Tarsila do Amaral
05/2018 | 1382 | 160
Pages: 422-423
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Reviewer:
Temkin, Susanna (Temkin, Susanna)
Subjects
artists:
Amaral, Tarsila do / Gleizes, Albert / Lhote, André / Léger, Fernand / Legrain, Pierre
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Drawings
museums and institutions:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States
places:
United States / New York
subjects:
Cubist / Social realism / Academie Julian, Paris, France / Nudes / Politics / Dreams / Mythology / Visual sources / Technical analysis / Radiographs
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Anthropophagy, by Tarsila do Amaral. 1929. Canvas, 126 by 142 cm. (Acervo da Fundação José e Paulina Nemirovsky, em comodato com a Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo; exh. Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Attributed works:
23. The black woman, by Tarsila do Amaral. 1923. Canvas, 100 by 80 cm. (Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo; exh. Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Attributed works:
24. Workers, by Tarsila do Amaral. 1933. Canvas, 150 by 205 cm. (Acervo Artístico-Cultural dos Palácios do Governo do Estado de São Paulo; exh. Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Attributed works:
25. A Cuca, by Tarsila do Amaral. 1924. Canvas, 60.5 by 72.5 cm. (Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris; exh. Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Publication Received
Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis. Edited by Anna Vallye, with contributions by Christian Derouet, Maria Gough, Stuart Liebman, Spyros Papapetros, Anna Vallye and Jennifer Wild.
09/2014 | 1338 | 156
Pages: 613
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Reviewer:
Vernon, Jonathan (Vernon, Jonathan ; V., J.)
Subjects
artists:
Léger, Fernand
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States / Museo Correr, Venice, Italy
subjects:
French painting / Exhibition catalogues
Publication Received
Modern Antiquity: Picasso, de Chirico, Léger, Picabia.
04/2012 | 1309 | 154
Pages: 283
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Reviewer:
Radford, Robert (Radford, Robert)
Subjects
artists:
Picasso, Pablo / Chirico, Giorgio de / Léger, Fernand / Picabia, Francis
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Getty Villa, Malibu, United States / Musée Picasso, Antibes, France
print:
Classicism
subjects:
Classicism / Exhibitions / Exhibition catalogues / Collections, Public / Paintings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Modern Antiquity: Picasso, de Chirico, Léger, Picabia. | author: Daehner, Jens , author: Green, Christopher
Exhibition Review
Modern art TEFAF
06/2011 | 1299 | 153
Pages: 426-427
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Reviewer:
Whitfield, Sarah (Whitfield, Sarah; Whitfield, Mrs)
Subjects
artists:
Twombly, Cy / Léger, Fernand / Corinth, Lovis / Picasso, Pablo / Vuillard, Edouard / Chapman, Jake / Chapman, Dinos / Cragg, Tony
artists:
Anatsui, El / Maclaren, Denham
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
European Fine Art Fair TEFAF, Maastricht, Netherlands
places:
Netherlands / Maastricht
print:
European Fine Art Fair TEFAF, Maastricht, Netherlands
private galleries:
Anthony Meir Fine Arts, San Francisco, United States / Keitelman Gallery, Brussels, Belgium / Landau Fine Art, Montreal, Canada / Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany / Axel Vervoordt, Antwerp, Belgium / Krugier & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland / Galerie Berès, Paris, France / Sebastian + Barquet, New York, United States / Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany / Blain Southern, Berlin, Germany
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / TEFAF (Maastricht)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
European Fine Art Fair TEFAF | institution: Anthony Meir Fine Arts , institution: Axel Vervoordt , institution: Blain Southern , institution: Galerie Berès , institution: Galerie Daniel Blau , institution: Galerie Thomas , institution: Keitelman Gallery , institution: Krugier & Cie , institution: Landau Fine Art , institution: Sebastian + Barquet
Illustrations
Attributed works:
68. Paysage, by Edouard Vuillard. c.1896. Panel, 17 by 20 cm. (Galerie Berès, Paris).
Attributed works:
69. Yellow and red asters, by Lovis Corinth. 1921. Canvas, 100.5 by 80.1 cm. (Galerie Thomas, Munich).
Exhibition Review
Cézanne and Beyond. Philadelphia
07/2009 | 1276 | 151
Pages: 501-502
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Reviewer:
Craft, Catherine (Craft, Catherine)
Subjects
artists:
Cézanne, Paul
artists:
Matisse, Henri / Picasso, Pablo / Braque, Georges / Léger, Fernand / Mondrian, Piet / Popova, Liubov / Beckmann, Max / Giacometti, Alberto / Morandi, Giorgio
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States
places:
United States / Philadelphia
print:
Cézanne, Paul
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Cézanne and Beyond | institution: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
75. The card players, by Paul Cézanne. 1890–92. Canvas, 65.4 by 81.9 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; exh. Philadelphia Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
76. Bathers with a turtle, by Henri Matisse. 1908. Canvas, 199.7 by 238.8 cm. (Saint Louis Art Museum;­ exh. Philadelphia Museum of Art)
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