21 Property from The Heidi Weber Museum Collection Le Corbusier Femme rouge et pelote verte 1932 oil on canvas 51 1/8 x 38 1/4 in. (130 x 97 cm) Signed and dated "Le Corbusier 32" lower right.
Provenance Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner Exhibited Zurich, Centre Le Corbusier – Heidi Weber, Thema “Frauen," 12 Olbilder von Le Corbusier aus den Jahren 1928-33, October 1976 - January 1977 Neuchâtel, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Le Corbusier, July 5 - September 14, 1980 Weimar, Apolda (European Capital of Culture Exhibiton), Le Corbusier - Painter, Designer, Sculptor, Poet, 1999 Geneva, Musée Rath, Le Corbusier ou la Synthèse des Arts, March 9 - August 6, 2006 Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Le Corbusier: Museum and Collection Heidi Weber, June 5 - September 3, 2007 Maldonado, Uruguay, Fundación Pablo Atchugarry Le Corbusier, El Artista: Grandes Obras De La Colección Heidi Weber Zurich, January 2 - March 25, 2010 Literature Thema “Frauen," 12 Olbilder von Le Corbusier aus den Jahren 1928-33, exh. cat., Centre Le Corbusier – Heidi Weber, Zurich, 1977, n.p. (illustrated) Le Corbusier, exh. cat., Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Neuchâtel, 1980, cat, n. 39 N. Jornod, J. Jornod, Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jenneret): Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint. Vol. 1, Milan: Skira, 2005, p. 529 (illustrated) J. Calatrava, En Los Alrededores del Poema del Angulo Recto: 7 Ensayos Entorno a Le Corbusier, Madrid: Circulo De Bellas Artes, 2006, p. 35 (illustrated) Le Corbusier, El Artista: Grandes Obras de La Colección Heidi Weber Zurich, exh. cat., Fundación Pablo Atchugarry and Heidi Weber Museum Centre Le Corbusier, Maldonado, Uruguay, 2010, p. 100 (illustrated) Video Le Corbusier 'Femme rouge et pelote verte', 1932 Le Corbusier's 'Femme rouge et pelote verte', 1932 to be offered in our 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 8 November 2015 in New York. Catalogue Essay “There is no such thing as a ‘pure’ sculptor, a ‘pure’ painter, or a ‘pure’ architect. The three-dimensional event finds its fulfillment in an artistic whole at the service of poetry.” Le Corbusier, 1948 Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret 1887-1965) is known, without a doubt, as one of the most influential and famous architects of the 20th century. What the general public knows very little about, however, is that in reality he was a painter and plastic artist in search of aesthetic perfection all his life. In fact, he never drew an architectural plan himself in his entire life, but drew by hand with near perfect perspective, 3D drawings with his vision of the shapes and forms that made his architecture become world famous. But besides having first been a painter, sculptor, engraver (the only cra˛ he graduated with), furniture and lamp designer, he was also an avid writer who published an amazing opus of over 50 books during his lifetime. One of them, in fact his very first book Towards a new architecture (1923), was chosen as one of the 100 most influential and important books out of billions of books published in the 20th century, together with others like The Capital by Karl Marx and Relativity by Albert Einstein. All of this made him the universal artist, the genius of the last century—or as many of his disciples call him, the Leonardo of the 20th century—a reason why he has also been chosen together with Alberto Giacometti and Sophie Taeuber-Arp (the wife of Jean Arp and an artist in her own right) to be featured on the current Swiss banknotes since 1997. As Le Corbusier himself once wrote: “If you want to attribute any importance to my architecture you need to discover the sources in my painted work, my secret search for aesthetic perfection which I have pursued my entire life.” Le Corbusier, the prolific Swiss-born French architect, painter, urbanist, writer and designer, embodied a spirit of interdisciplinary exploration through his experimentation across media. His graphic output was abundant, consisting of hundreds of paintings, thousands of drawings and watercolors, and scores of collages, lithographs, and murals. Between 1918 and 1927 Le Corbusier and the painter Amédée Ozenfant created Purism, a response to
21 Property from The Heidi Weber Museum Collection Le Corbusier Femme rouge et pelote verte 1932 oil on canvas 51 1/8 x 38 1/4 in. (130 x 97 cm) Signed and dated "Le Corbusier 32" lower right.
Provenance Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner Exhibited Zurich, Centre Le Corbusier – Heidi Weber, Thema “Frauen," 12 Olbilder von Le Corbusier aus den Jahren 1928-33, October 1976 - January 1977 Neuchâtel, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Le Corbusier, July 5 - September 14, 1980 Weimar, Apolda (European Capital of Culture Exhibiton), Le Corbusier - Painter, Designer, Sculptor, Poet, 1999 Geneva, Musée Rath, Le Corbusier ou la Synthèse des Arts, March 9 - August 6, 2006 Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Le Corbusier: Museum and Collection Heidi Weber, June 5 - September 3, 2007 Maldonado, Uruguay, Fundación Pablo Atchugarry Le Corbusier, El Artista: Grandes Obras De La Colección Heidi Weber Zurich, January 2 - March 25, 2010 Literature Thema “Frauen," 12 Olbilder von Le Corbusier aus den Jahren 1928-33, exh. cat., Centre Le Corbusier – Heidi Weber, Zurich, 1977, n.p. (illustrated) Le Corbusier, exh. cat., Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Neuchâtel, 1980, cat, n. 39 N. Jornod, J. Jornod, Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jenneret): Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint. Vol. 1, Milan: Skira, 2005, p. 529 (illustrated) J. Calatrava, En Los Alrededores del Poema del Angulo Recto: 7 Ensayos Entorno a Le Corbusier, Madrid: Circulo De Bellas Artes, 2006, p. 35 (illustrated) Le Corbusier, El Artista: Grandes Obras de La Colección Heidi Weber Zurich, exh. cat., Fundación Pablo Atchugarry and Heidi Weber Museum Centre Le Corbusier, Maldonado, Uruguay, 2010, p. 100 (illustrated) Video Le Corbusier 'Femme rouge et pelote verte', 1932 Le Corbusier's 'Femme rouge et pelote verte', 1932 to be offered in our 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 8 November 2015 in New York. Catalogue Essay “There is no such thing as a ‘pure’ sculptor, a ‘pure’ painter, or a ‘pure’ architect. The three-dimensional event finds its fulfillment in an artistic whole at the service of poetry.” Le Corbusier, 1948 Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret 1887-1965) is known, without a doubt, as one of the most influential and famous architects of the 20th century. What the general public knows very little about, however, is that in reality he was a painter and plastic artist in search of aesthetic perfection all his life. In fact, he never drew an architectural plan himself in his entire life, but drew by hand with near perfect perspective, 3D drawings with his vision of the shapes and forms that made his architecture become world famous. But besides having first been a painter, sculptor, engraver (the only cra˛ he graduated with), furniture and lamp designer, he was also an avid writer who published an amazing opus of over 50 books during his lifetime. One of them, in fact his very first book Towards a new architecture (1923), was chosen as one of the 100 most influential and important books out of billions of books published in the 20th century, together with others like The Capital by Karl Marx and Relativity by Albert Einstein. All of this made him the universal artist, the genius of the last century—or as many of his disciples call him, the Leonardo of the 20th century—a reason why he has also been chosen together with Alberto Giacometti and Sophie Taeuber-Arp (the wife of Jean Arp and an artist in her own right) to be featured on the current Swiss banknotes since 1997. As Le Corbusier himself once wrote: “If you want to attribute any importance to my architecture you need to discover the sources in my painted work, my secret search for aesthetic perfection which I have pursued my entire life.” Le Corbusier, the prolific Swiss-born French architect, painter, urbanist, writer and designer, embodied a spirit of interdisciplinary exploration through his experimentation across media. His graphic output was abundant, consisting of hundreds of paintings, thousands of drawings and watercolors, and scores of collages, lithographs, and murals. Between 1918 and 1927 Le Corbusier and the painter Amédée Ozenfant created Purism, a response to
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