Nadia Léger and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. In the background Aimé Maeght, Maurice Thorez, Marcel Cachin, editor of the newspaper L'Humanité. Musée Fernand Léger, Foundation Stone Ceremony, Biot 1957.
At the 1957 foundation stone ceremony for the Musée Fernand Léger in Biot, Nadia Léger, dressed in a dark fur coat and hat, offers a small pickaxe to a smiling Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Standing before a large, rough-hewn stone, they are watched by a crowd of onlookers that includes Aimé Maeght, Maurice Thorez, and Marcel Cachin, editor of the newspaper *L'Humanité*.
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