Le Corbusier

Barque et coquillage

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October 7, 01:03 PM GMT

Estimate

35,000 - 45,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, France

Le Corbusier

1887 - 1965

Barque et coquillage

signed with the monogram (lower left); signed Le Corbusier and dedicated pour Urmila, Bonheur pour toute la vie! amitie 27 mai 1955 on the reverse

oil on panel, in the artist’s frame

21.3 by 17.1cm., 8⅜ by 6¾in.

Framed: 24.2 by 19.9cm., 9½ by 7⅞in.

Painted circa 1938.

Private Collection, India (a gift from the artist in 1955)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Naïma & Jean-Pierre Jornod, Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret), Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Milan, 2005, vol. I, no. 207, illustrated p. 637 (with incorrect measurements)