Poster Fernand Léger 1957, silkscreen, 88 x 60. Léger is linked to the Acquisitions poster by the same diagonals. The black lines refer to Léger’s paintings and Crouwel interpreted these typographically. ‘It is purely constructed. An “R” like this is a pure circle, with no
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optical corrections … It had to be a kind of continuous figure, like a signature. In addition, the rhythm of the parts is important. But why the details came to be the way they are, I cannot say.’ [Broos 2003, p. 34]