Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret):
Drawings and Posters

Untitled (Nature morte puriste à la bouteille noire
[Purist still life with black bottle]), 1926
Gouache and pencil on paper, 10 1/2 x 8 1/4” (27 x 21 cm)

It is as a Purist painter and graphic artist that Le Corbusier’s work fits within the collection, alongside works by Fernand Léger; Léger’s students and associates (such as Franciska Clausen and Thorvald Hellesen); artists associated with Léonce Rosenberg’s Galerie L’Effort Moderne (such as Auguste Herbin); and the posters of Francis Bernard, A.M. Cassandre, and Charles Loupot. Newsletters featuring these artists will follow.

Untitled (Nature morte puriste en camaieu noir sur fond rouge
[Purist still life in black on red ground]), 1927
Gouache and pencil on paper, 17 1/4 x 12 1/2” (44.1 x 32.2 cm)

Poster: Modulor. 1962 (image dated 1950; printed inscription February 20, 1956)
Lithograph, 29 x 21 1/2” (75 x 54.6 cm)
Printer: Mourlot, Paris
Printed inscription, lower right: ami du Modulor, cherche par toi-même, invente, découvre... Apporte inventions, elles seront utiles. Merci, ami
(Friend of Modular, search by yourself, invent, discover… Bring your inventions, they will be useful. Thank you, friend). Paris 20/2.56 Le Corbusier

Poster: Le Corbusier, Poeme de l'Angle Droit (Poem of the right angle), 1955
Lithograph, 24 1/2 x 16” (62.2 x 40.6 cm)
Printer: Mourlot, Paris
Note: This poster announces an exhibition at Berggruen & Cie, Paris of Le poème de l'angle droit (Paris: Tériade, 1955), a lavish portfolio of Le Corbusier’s images and texts created between 1947 and 1953.

Poster: Le Corbusier, Musée de Lyon, Festival de Lyon-Charbonnières
(June 23–October 28, 1956), 1956
Printer: Mourlot, Paris
Lithograph, 28 1/4 x 19 7/8” (72 x 50 cm)
Note: This poster announces an exhibition at the Musée de Lyon based on Le Corbusier’s book Modulor 2: la parole est aux usagers
(Boulogne: Éditions de l'architecture d'aujord'hui, 1955).

May 23, 2023