Le Corbusier

Estimate

70,000 - 90,000 USD

Sold

83,500 USD

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Description

Le Corbusier
Nature morte aux bouteilles, verres et carafes
Signed with the initials L-C and dated 42-55 (towards lower right); inscribed "Pour Françoise la gentille tapissière des temps ... Avec l'amitié de Le Corbusier Mai 1955" (lower left)
Gouache, oil, pen and ink and collage on paper laid down on card

Provenance

Françoise Leduc (acquired from the artist in 1955)
Private Collection, Switzerland
Sale: Germann Auktionshaus, May 25, 2009, lot 32

Literature

Naïma & Jean-Pierre Jornod, Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret), Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. II, Milan, 2005, no. 317 & no. 323, illustrated

Catalogue Note

An existing correspondence between Le Corbusier and Madame Françoise Leduc (Foundation Le Corbusier) states that the present work was a wedding present from Le Corbusier to Françoise Leduc in 1955.