Juan Gris the painters of the Puteaux Group in the Salon de "la Section d'Or" in 1912. His preference for clarity and order influenced the Purist style of Amédée Ozenfant and Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier), and made Gris an important exemplar of the post-war "return to order" movement. In 1915 he was painted by his friend, Amedeo Modigliani. In November 1917 he made one of his few sculptures, the polychrome plaster "Harlequin". Gris's works from late 1916 through 1917 exhibit a greater simplification of geometric structure, a blurring of the distinction between objects and setting, between subject matter and background. The
Le Gris St. Joseph River, not far from Kekionga. By 1764, Le Gris was the recognized leader of the village. The emigration caused a split in the Pepikokia band; Le Gris often working and siding with Kekionga, while the principal village of Kithtippecanuck on the Tippecanoe River sided with Ouiatenon. Nagohquangogh signed the Greenville treaty in 1795, along with Michikinikwa, Peshewa and others. More information about Le Gris comes from the diary of Henry Hay, an English-Canadian trader from Detroit who spent three months with the Miami. During his stay, Pacanne was away on business, leaving decisions to be made by Tacumwah