"CHARLES-EDOUARD JEANNERET dit LE CORBUSIER... - Lot 264 - Osenat

"CHARLES-EDOUARD JEANNERET dit LE CORBUSIER (1887-1965) Study for The Hands Pastel and ink on fine paper Inscribed 'see [Cluny?] Complete 5 volumes / page 224 / one could isolate the 2 hands studied / and something gets intense / (separate pieces)' (upper right) Signed, dated and located 'L-C Cap-Martin Sept 53' (lower right), with the studio stamp 'J. SAVINA TRÉGUIER (C.-du-N.) (on the reverse) 20,8 x 26,8 cm Executed in September 1953 Provenance : Joseph Savina's descendants. Bibliography: P. Aumasson and Y. Brand'honneur, Savina Le Corbusier, de l'art celtique à la sculpture moderne, Ed. Locus Solus, Châteaulin, 2021, p. 214, no. 209 (the present work illustrated). The present pastel is an unretained study sent to Savina for the natural wood sculpture ""The Hands,"" made in 1956."