He will also give the Met 14 pieces by Fernand Leger and 14 others by Juan Gris, according to the museum.

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When the early modernist message crackled across Europe like an electric charge, Aalto was quick to enter the charmed circle that included Le Corbusier, the historian Siegfried Giedion, and artists like Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi and Fernand Leger, whose organic abstractions were soon to influence his own use of form.

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It was there from 1948 onwards that he started to move in artistic circles meeting French painter and sculptor Joseph Fernand Henri Leger, Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti and Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi, among others.

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