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A hulk of a man with a capacious appetite for women and red wine, Léger seemed the right choice to muscle French painting out of the cafe and the artist's studio and into the world of steel girders and factory smoke.
His Good-bye New York (1946), the cover illustration for the exhibition catalog, has no urban feel at all, despite some free-floating girders and a row of neckties glimpsed at a Times Square stall.
You will, by now, have noticed that the White House interior is filled with a mesh of steel girders holding up the exterior, and that the sorts of things that are usually said to make up a room--a floor, a ceiling, doors, a complete set of walls--are missing.
The Italian-born architect's other hallmark, of which the Lloyd's of London headquarters is the leading example, is for a building to show how it works, exposing its elevators, ventilation pipes, and structural girders.