Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) - Deux Femmes allongées

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)

Deux Femmes allongées
1937

Watercolour, gouache, India ink, and crayon on wove paper with watermark "The Best Paper made in Docelles Vosges", laid down on light card (32 x 40.6 cm) 20.7 x 30.5 cm Signed and dated 'Le Corbusier 1937' in crayon lower right. Dedicated 'pour Germaine Ducret amicalement Le Corbusier N. A 48 ' [Nouvel An 1948] in pencil on the card lower right. - In very fine condition.

Germaine Ducret was the wife of the engineer Paul Ducret, a close friend and consultant of Le Corbusier.

Certificate

With a photo-certificate by Naïma and Jean-Pierre Jornod, Geneva, dated 13 Jan. 2010 and a confirmation by Jean-Pierre Duport, Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris, dated 10 Oct. 2011.
The work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of drawings by Le Corbusier.

Provenance

Gift from the artist to Germaine Ducret (1948); Galerie Kornfeld Bern, Auction Kunst des 19. bis 21. Jahrhunderts, Teil II, 13 June 2019, Lot 386; Private possession, Hesse