CHARLES-EDOUARD JEANNERET dit LE CORBUSIER... - Lot 266 - Osenat

CHARLES-EDOUARD JEANNERET dit LE CORBUSIER (1887-1965) Study for Sculpture no. 12 - Woman - Hands Ballpoint pen on fine paper Inscribed '4' (top left), 'send me some more pictures of this sculpture (especially for my [...]) / a drawing around 1928' (bottom right), with the stamp of the Atelier Joseph Savina 'J. SAVINA / TRÉGUIER C. du-N.' (on the reverse) 27 x 21 cm Provenance: Joseph Savina's descendants. Exhibition: Piacé, Espace Piacé-Le-Radieux, Piacé, Espace Piacé-Le Corbusier, Joseph Savina / Le Corbusier, June-August 2015. Bibliography: R. Aujame and F. de Franclieu, Fondation Le Corbusier, Le Corbusier / Savina, dessins et sculptures, Editions Philippe Sers, Paris, 1984, p. 32 (the present work illustrated in black and white). This is a first thought for the sculpture Woman of 1953, whose final composition differs from the present drawing but retains the general position of the crossed arms and the raising of the left shoulder.