Le Corbusier

£800.00

Tapisseries, en L’eglise de Chateau-Felletin-Creuse by Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier exhibition poster: Tapisseries, en L’eglise de Chateau-Fellentin-Creuse printed in 1963.

 

Year: 1963

Dimensions: 25 x 19 in / 63.5 x 48.3 cm

Medium: Traditional stone lithograph

Printers: Mourlot

Paper: Classic Poster Paper

Condition: Perfect Condition A+

This rich and beautiful original lithographic poster was created for an exhibition of famous Swiss architect Le Corbusier of his Tapisseries, in the church of the Chateau Felletin in Creuse in 1963. A traditional stone lithograph printed by Atelier Mourlot. Add this striking vintage Le Corbusier art poster to your collection.

By the end of the 1940s, Le Corbusier had produced, or rather had printed, about twenty works, the later ones in 1938 printed by the lithographer Fernand Mourlot. He had a fascination with proportion, modularity, and geometry, often taking his cue from classical architecture theory. At this point, Tériade, the publisher of his “Le poéme de l’angle droit”, encouraged him to devote himself more to lithography. This reinforced LC in his determination to make his artistic work known to a broader public.

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.”