Charles-Edouard JEANNERET known as LE CORBUSIER (1887-1965) Crossed hands and 2 naked women sitting and playing cards, 1939 Gouache and ink on graphite composition on fine wove paper. Signed and dated lower middle. 26.5 x 20.4 cm A certificate of Mr. Éric Mouchet, dated February 20, 2023, will be given to the buyer. Mains croisées et deux femmes nues assises jouant aux cartes (1939) describes a typical scene of domestic life evoking friendship, dear to Le Corbusier and which he liked to illustrate in this way as soon as the human figure entered his work in the early 1930s. Games of dominoes, backgammon or chess have been evoked many times before in Le Corbusier's purist still lifes, illustrated by the dice horn, the backgammon board or the chess knight in the background of many disembodied purist still lifes. But as soon as Le Corbusier began to draw women, games, dancing, singing, musical rehearsals or aperitifs became the subject of numerous compositions and this would accelerate during the second part of the artist's career, after the Second World War, and when he built his cottage in Roquebrune Cap-Martin in 1952.