Ozenfant

Army during World War II; studied art for two years in New York with the Cubist Amédée Ozenfant and struggled to find a job that would allow him time to paint.

Williams Speaking of art, we wanted to take you to see the mosaic at 240 Central Park South by Ozenfant.

In 1928, the artist and critic Amédée Ozenfant wrote of the art in the Les Eyzies caves, “Ah, those hands! Those silhouettes of hands, spread out and stencilled on an ochre ground! Go and see them. I promise you the most intense emotion you have ever experienced.”

They owe something to the interwar Purist paintings of Amédée Ozenfant, Le Corbusier and Fernand Léger, as does Memphis.

Also displayed in the galleries were various model reproductions of important Le Corbusier buildings — such as the studio he designed for Ozenfant that same decade— reconstructions produced by design students at various university programs throughout Japan.