After graduation, he went to Paris to study art at the Académie Lhote and at the Académie Moderne, where he worked under the Modernist painters Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant.
During the last year of the 1st World War, Leonce Rosenberg, brother of the dealer Paul Rosenberg had opened a gallery called L'Effort Moderne, & purchased works by the Kahnweiler Cubists.
But unhappy with the company's preference for knockoff European "moderne," and wanting to work in more traditional maple, Wright went to Conant Ball in Gardner, Mass., known for its early American furniture reproductions.
But in September, the city inaugurated the Pinakothek der Moderne, an extraordinary modern-art museum with works from Beckmann to Bacon to Beuys, which curators say represents a definitive break with the city's relative apathy toward 20th-century art.
"Edvard Munch: L'Oeil Moderne" (The Modern Eye) continues through Jan . 9at the Pompidou Center.
The Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne et Biathlon (founded 1948) worked for the development of both sports and instituted an annual world championship for the biathlon in 1958.
By the 1930's, he was working in the moderne style, like the 1936 apartment building at 1150 Grand Concourse at McClellan Street in the Bronx, covered with sinuous mosaics, with complex massing on its upper floors.
Moderne's prices for its pre-1956 worangeange from $3,500 for a 1951 walnut chair with a cantilevered seat to $100,000 for a 1951 walnut wall cabinet mounted on burl poles.
The occasion was the impending opening, on Friday, of "Crumb, From the Underground to Genesis," an exhibition covering nearly five decades of his work, at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and his first comprehensive museum retrospective.
In his early philosophical work (e.g., "La science moderne et la raison," 1910, and La philosophie bergsonienne, 1913), Maritain sought to defend Thomistic philosophy from its Bergsonian and secular opponents.
