LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

51.26 in. (130.20 cm.) (height) by 35.00 in. (88.90 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Jeanneret 26.' (lower right); signed, dated and inscribed 'Le Corbusier Accordéon, Carafe et Cafetière 1926' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Le Corbusier (oeuvre plastique) 1919-1937, January - February 1938, no. 17, p. 17. New York, Rosenberg Galleries, Painting by Le Corbusier (Jeanneret), May 1948, no. 5. Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, L'Opera di Le Corbusier, February - March 1963, no. 49, p. 205. Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Le Corbusier: Museo y colección Heidi Weber, June - September 2007, p. 24 (illustrated). Zurich, Caratsch de Pury & Luxembourg, Le Corbusier, September - November 2004, no. 4.

Literature:

Le Corbusier, New World of Space, New York, 1948, p. 29 (illustrated). J. Petit, Le Corbusier lui-même, Geneva, 1970, p. 212. H. Weber, ed., Le Corbusier: Maler, Zeichner, Plastiker, Poet, Bonn, 1999, n.p (illustrated). N. & J.P. Jornod, Le Corbusier, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. I, Milan, 2005, no. 55, pp. 408-409 (illustrated p. 408).

Provenance:

Heidi Weber, Zurich, by whom acquired directly from the artist. Private collection, Switzerland, by whom acquired from the above in 1974; sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 December 1996, lot 149. Re-acquired at the above sale by the present owner.