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LE CORBUSIER (1887-1965)

Lot 28
09.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1306088
Lot 28 | LE CORBUSIER (1887-1965)
Estimate value
£ 2 200 000 – 3 200 000
LE CORBUSIER (1887-1965)
Deux figures au tronc d'arbre jaune
signed and dated ‘Le Corbusier 37’ (upper right); signed again, dated and inscribed ‘Le Corbusier. Deux figures et l’arbre jaune 1937’ (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
51 1/8 x 63 ¾ in. (130 x 162 cm.)
Painted in 1937




Provenance

The artist’s estate (no. 251).
Heidi Weber, Zurich, by whom acquired from the above in 1973.
Private collection, North America, by whom acquired from the above in 1981; sale, Christie’s, London, 27 February 2019, lot 32.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

J. Badovici, Le Corbusier: Oeuvre plastique, peintures et dessins, architecture, Paris, 1939, n.p. (illustrated pl. 26; with inverted dimensions).
J. Petit, Le Corbusier lui-même, Geneva, 1970, p. 213 (illustrated p. 223).
H. Weber, Le Corbusier: Maler, Zeichner, Plastiker, Poet, Werke aus der Sammlung Heidi Weber, Zurich, 1988, n.p. (illustrated; illustrated again n.p.; illustrated in situ n.p.).
N. & J.-P. Jornod, Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret): Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, vol. I, Geneva, 2005, no. 187, pp. 610 & 612 (illustrated p. 611).



Exhibited

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Le Corbusier, oeuvre plastique, January - February 1938, no. 72, p. 19 (with inverted dimensions).
Paris, Galerie Roland Balaÿ et Louis Carré, Le Corbusier: Peintures 1918-1938, November - December 1938, no. 11 (illustrated).
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Corbusier, March - April 1948; this exhibition later travelled to Detroit, Institute of Arts, June - July 1948; San Francisco, Museum of Art, August - October 1948; Colorado Springs, Fine Art Center, November - December 1948; Cleveland, Museum of Art, March - April 1949; St. Louis, City Art Museum, July 1949; São Paulo, Museu de Arte, July - November 1950; Berlin, Maison de France, September 1952; Belgrade, December 1952 - January 1953; Skopje, February 1953; Sarajevo, March 1953; Split, April 1953; Zagreb, April - May 1953; Ljubljana, May 1953 and Mostar, May 1953.
Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Le Corbusier, November 1962 - January 1963, no. 173, p. 52.
Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, L’opera di Le Corbusier, February - March 1963, no. 107, p. 209 (illustrated pl. XLIV, p. 164).
Zurich, Galerie Heidi Weber, Le Corbusier, Peintures grands formats, March - April 1964, no. 7 (dated '1938' and with inverted dimensions).
Rome, Galleria Levi, Le Corbusier, December 1969 - January 1970 (illustrated).
Turin, Galleria Narciso, Le Corbusier: Olii, sculture, pastelli, grafica, arazzi, November – December 1970, no. 20.
Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, Neue Sachlichkeit und Surrealismus in der Schweiz, 1915-1940, September - November 1979, no. 153, p. 5.
Neuchâtel, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Le Corbusier, July - September 1980, no. 43.
Artist:Le Corbusier (1887 - 1965)
Applied technique:Oil, Oil on canvas, Painted
Medium:Canvas, Textile
Art style:Modern art
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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