Unite (Planche VIII) 1953

Year1953

Hand SignedLower Right in Pencil 

Condition Excellent 

Framed with PlexiglassBlack Frame w/ White Mat 

Purchased fromAuction House 2023 

Provenance / HistoryProvenance: Pace Gallery, Columbus, Ohio - Reference 43205 - (Their label verso)Prudential insurance Company of America - Art Number L-110 (Their label verso) 

Story / Additional InfoLe Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) (1887-1965)

Title: Unite (PLANCHE X)
Medium: Original Etching & Aquatint in colours, 1953, on Rives BFK (watermarked) paper, signed by the artist in pencil, with full margins
Size: Sheet : 22.5 x 18 in. (57.15 x 45.72 cm.)
Note: Le Corbusier was one of the fathers of Modern architecture, and is best known for his pioneering work in the International Style, but he was also a celebrated designer, painter, and printmaker. The Unité prints portfolio was conceived and printed following the construction of the Unité d’habitation in Marseilles in the 1950’s. 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID165375

Le Corbusier - France

Art Brokerage: Le Corbusier Swiss-French Artist: b. 1887-1965. Swiss, French artist and architect, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) was born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris in Switzerland on October 6, 1887. In 1917, he moved to Paris and assumed the pseudonym Le Corbusier. He is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of the modernist movement in architecture. In his architecture, he chiefly built with steel and reinforced concrete and worked with elemental geometric forms. Le Corbusier's painting emphasized clear forms and structures, which corresponded to his architecture. He was interested in his search for organization of the represented figures on "regulating traces", geometrical grids with which he would establish dimensional relations of harmonic proportions. It is a procedure that he used to adopt in architecture as well as in painting. Just like music, which is organized on mathematical patterns among sounds, their repetitions and cadences, which give it rhythm and harmony. He is an architect that loves things that are proportionate not in term of design but in term of mathematical explanation, which can be clearly seen in almost all of his architecture and paintings. Over the course of his five-decade career, he saw work built across Europe, India, and the United States. He is quoted as saying, "I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies." Listings wanted.