165 - Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Nature morte aux nombreux objets 1922/1923 Pencil drawing on paper. 22 x 27.3 cm. Stamped "FONDATION LE CORBUSIER", stamp number '1647', and handwritten number "59" verso. - Margin slightly browned and with light-stain, otherwise very good, age-appropriate condition. We would like to thank Eric Mouchet, Paris, for his kind assistance. No. 1647 confirms that the drawing was in the collection of the Fondation Le Corbusier at the time of Le Corbusier’s death. Provenance Galerie Denise René, Paris/New York; Private collection, Switzerland; Private collection, Hamburg Exhibitions Paris 1971 (Galerie Denise René), Le Corbusier, cat. with ill.; New York 1972 (Denise René Gallery), Le Corbusier. The Artist, no. 13, cat. with ill. The drawing served as a preparatory sketch for the painting of the same name from 1923 (Jornod 42), which is held by the Fondation Le Corbusier. Jornod noted that this was one of the most celebrated works from the "Purisme" period: "It perfectly illustrates the allusion to the plastic, or even architectural, interplay described by the painter and architect during his lecture in Rome on the relationship between architecture and figurative art in October 1936" (Jornod 42).