Le Corbusier
£2,344.00
Le Corbusier Crossed Hands Lithograph
Year: 1954/64
Dimensions: 72 x 54 cm
Edition: 150 (signed in the stone)
Paper: Arches
Printers: Mourlot
Reference: Weber 86, 120
Le Corbusier Crossed Hands Lithograph (Mains Croisées) depicts a strong pair of hands and a head of a stringed instrument. This original stone lithograph is a perfect example of the architect and the painter within Le Corbusier battling against each other. Strong, colourful, contrasting surfaces are overlapped by linear constructions. Harmony, humour and balance.
“Le Corbusier’s method of working was a constant source of fascination for Heidi Weber. Initially, he created lithographs in black and white. Because of their close collaboration, Heidi Weber was able to suggest that she felt that something was missing. After considering this briefly, Le Corbusier admitted that she was right: “Yes, I should add colour.”
She was curious and asked herself how he would solve this. He went away and returned with pieces of coloured paper which he tore into different pieces. After he checked the linear drawings, he slid the scraps of paper around the drawing with his thumb until they found their rightful place, as if on their own.” – Heidi Weber 50 Years Ambassador for Le Corbusier, 1958 – 2008
Comes with a certificate of provenance signed and dated.
THE ARTIST
LE CORBUSIER
b. 1887 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Le Corbusier cannot be comprehended without including him as a painter, a draftsman and a graphic artist. Art was the foundation with which he built his architectural work upon and develop his modernist vision. Art inspired Le Corbusier to explore his ideas of architectural space, visions which were completely unique and yet to be realised at the time. He experimented with the dissolution and reconstruction of the three dimensional shapes, which can later be seen in his buildings and even in his urban architectural projects. The development that he underwent as an artist was parallel to his development as an architect. It is not without reason that he placed importance on the statement that the key to his architecture was to be found in his artistic work. Le Corbusier cannot be comprehended without including him as a painter, a draftsman and a graphic artist. Art was the foundation with which he built his architectural work upon and develop his modernist vision. Art inspired Le Corbusier to explore his ideas of architectural space, visions which were completely unique and yet to be realised at the time. He experimented with the dissolution and reconstruction of the three dimensional shapes, which can later be seen in his buildings and even in his urban architectural projects. The development that he underwent as an artist was parallel to his development as an architect. It is not without reason that he placed importance on the statement that the key to his architecture was to be found in his artistic work.
By 1920's Le Corbusier was an established architect, but it wasn't until forty years after his death that he gained recognition for his artwork, and the significance it held in art history. He gained strength and inspiration from his art: for decades he devoted every morning to his artwork. Art was “the key to my existence.”