Important Paintings, Sculptures, Watercolors, Drawings and Multiples
Monday, 25 November 2019, 06:00 pm
Lot 119
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 (CH)
Verres et bouteilles, 1962
Grattage. Casein paint on transparent celluloid.
H 592 mm W 419 mm.
Signed with the monogram and dated lower right: L.C., 62.
| * | CHF | 30'000 / 40'000 |
| * | EUR | 28'000 / 37'000 |
| * | USD | 30'000 / 40'000 |
Hammer Price: CHF 32'000
Annotation:
(Frame).
Provenance: Swiss collection.
Authentication:
Heidi Weber has personally examined the work in May 2008 and verbally confirmed the authenticity of the work.
Photo certificate by Mme. Naïma and M. Jean-Pierre Jornod. December 2009.
Annotation:
The number 3 lower right represents the numbering of the work within a series of works with identical technique but different subjects. The present subject refers to one, in 1926 by Le Corbusier executed theme (see. Jornod 2005, Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, No. 51, 52 and 53).
The work is registered at the archive of Mme. Naïma and M. Jean-Pierre Jornod, Geneva, and will be incuded in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of Work on Paper and Celluloid.