Lot 35
Oil on wood.
H 260 mm W 390 mm.
Signed with the monogram and dated upper left: L-C, 35, 44. Verso signed with the monogram and dated: L-C, 35-44. (Frame).
CHF | 40'000 / 60'000 |
EUR | 40'000 / 61'000 |
USD | 44'000 / 66'000 |
Hammer Price: CHF 38'000
Provenance:
Galerie René Drouin, Paris, No. 93 (verso with label);
Swiss Private Collection.
Exhibitions:
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Le Corbusier: Schilder, Architect, Stedebouwer, March - May 1947, No. 23;
Touring exhibition 1948-1954: Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, March – April 1948;
Detroit, Institute of Arts, 1. June – 25. July 1948;
San Francisco, Museum of Art, 17. August – 13. October 1948;
Colorado Springs, Fine Arts Center, 7. November – 18. December 1948;
Cleveland, Museum of Arts, 15. March – 10. April 1949;
St. Louis, City Art Museum, July 1949;
Sao Paulo, Museu de Arte, July – November 1950;
Berlin, Maison de la France, 1. - 21. September 1952;
Belgrade, 20. December 1952 – 11. January 1953;
Skopje, 20. - 27. February 1953; Zagreb, 25. April – 5. May 1953;
Ljubljana, 7. - 17. May 1953;
Mostar, May 1953.
Literature:
Naïma Jornod, Jean-Pierre Jornod. Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret), Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Tome II. Milano 2005, page 773, No. 313;
Flora Samuel, Le Corbusier Architect and Feminist, Wiley-Academy, Chichester-Hoboken 2004, illustration on page 78;
Jean Petit. Le Corbusier lui-même, Genf 1970, page 214, illustration on page 227;
Jean Alazard. Le Corbusier, Electa, Milan-Florence, 1955, Plate LX.