拍品 3270* - A209 印象派&现代主义 - Freitag, 21. Juni 2024, 05.00 PM
LE CORBUSIER (CHARLES-ÉDOUARD JEANNERET-GRIS)
(La Chaux-de-Fonds 1887–1965 Roquebrune-Cap-Martin)
Nature morte à la lanterne. 1940.
Oil on canvas.
Monogrammed and dated upper right: L-C. 40.
Dedicated, signed and with date of dedication verso: A Maurice / de Montmollin / amicalement / Le Corbusier / 1946.
Dedicated, signed and with date of dedication verso: A Maurice / de Montmollin / amicalement / Le Corbusier / 1946.
46 × 38 cm.
Provenance:
- Private collection Jean-Pierre de Montmollin, acquired directly from the artist in 1941.
- Maurice de Montmollin, received as a gift from the above collection in 1946 and dedicated by the artist.
- Private collection, Europe.
- Sale Christie's, Zürich, 17.9.2019, Lot 114.
- Swiss collection, acquired at the above auction.
Literature:
- Naïma Jornod und Jean-Pierre Jornod: Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret). Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Milan 2005, vol.II, p. 693, no. 247 (ill.).
- Jean Petit: Le Corbusier lui-même, Geneva 1970, p. 214.
"Nature morte à la lanterne" is an outstanding work within the Œuvre of Le Corbusier, who plays a key role in 21st century art as an architect and designer, as well as a painter and draftsman. The lantern, the eponymous element in this still life, was one of the artist's own furnishings and appears as a design element in a large number of Le Corbusier's works. While the lantern was recognizable when depicted in the artist's early work, its shape was gradually simplified by Le Corbusier. In the present painting, abstraction is taken to the extreme and all that remains is a pattern of interlocking geometric lines.
Le Corbusier cleverly juxtaposes this flat, geometric structure with the amorphous, volumetric form of a cactus and is thus able to create a lively tension between structured and organic parts of the picture. Therefore, in the still life by Le Corbusier offered here, his play with form, color, proportion and structure – a central element of his work – comes into its own in a particularly beautiful manner.
Le Corbusier cleverly juxtaposes this flat, geometric structure with the amorphous, volumetric form of a cactus and is thus able to create a lively tension between structured and organic parts of the picture. Therefore, in the still life by Le Corbusier offered here, his play with form, color, proportion and structure – a central element of his work – comes into its own in a particularly beautiful manner.
CHF 90 000 / 120 000 | (€ 92 780 / 123 710)