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Luc Legendre, Artist |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: Gary Lee |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1991 |
| Size: 2,060 Words, 11,528 Characters |
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When Paris-born Luc Legendre opened an exhibition of his color-splashed body portraits in Washington, D.C., last autumn, he became part of one of the most venerable of art traditions: the European painter's American debut. It all started in 1913, when a little-known French painter named Marcel Duchamp opened a show of works at the New York armory and threw the city's gallery scene into a tizzy.
Ever since then, artists from the Continent have regarded the first exhibition on this side of the Atlantic as a rite of passage. From French Impressionists in the beginning of the century to Italian abstract painters in the 1980s, they have arrived, easels in hand, hopes as high as the Statue of Liberty.
Legendre's exhibition may have lacked the scandal of Duchamp's, but it was no less ...
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...painter in America. Like the British painter David Hockney, he found a wealth of colors here that he had not really seen in Europe. And like his countryman Duchamp, he relished the idea of sparking artistic controversy. Like all of these and other Europeans who have once come and pitched a tent on this side of the Atlantic, Legendre closed his first show in America with a vow to return again.
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