National Museum of Western Art was designed by the Swiss architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris (1887–1965), who is more popularly known as Le Corbusier. It is the only representative example of his work in the Far East; and the "New York Times" review of its opening suggested that the building itself presented an "artistic significance and beauty" which rivaled the paintings inside. The multi-story, reinforced concrete building was completed in March 1959 as a symbol of the resumption of diplomatic ties between Japan and France after World War II. The museum was built to house the collection of works gathered by the industrialist Matsukata Kojiro between 1920
Nuages gris was happening and what would happen in European music: sound, with the assistance of symmetry, would take over, harmony would be absorbed into color and lose its cadential function." Claude Debussy probably had "Nuages gris" in mind when he composed his own "Nuages". Mauricio Kagel used "Nuages gris" in his "Unguis incarnatus est" (1972). in 1986, Heinz Holliger worked the piece out into "Zwei Liszt-Transkriptionen" for orchestra (together with "Unstern!"). A shocking scene at the morgue in Stanley Kubrick's last film" Eyes Wide Shut" is accompanied by "Nuages gris". Nuages gris Nuages gris (; French, lit. "Grey Clouds"), S.199 or