Le Corbusier
£1,650.00
Le Corbusier Festival de Lyon, Charbonnières,
Musée de Lyon
Signed: Monogrammed LC and dated in the print
Medium: Traditional stone lithograph in 4 colours, printed by Atelier Mourlot
Dimensions: 64.8 x 50.2 cm
Many artists would create their own poster designs to advertise exhibitions. Le Corbusier usually gave his lithographer, Fernand Mourlot of Atelier Mourlot, a finished poster design which was often a collage. He then approved only if he was fully satisfied with the final proof. The posters are consequently printed using the same process as his hand-signed lithographs.
The edition size of a LC poster printed by Mourlot can no longer be determined. Sadly these posters were hardly considered worthy of collecting, and most of them were pasted over or were destroyed. This makes these artworks rare and in high demand today, making some of these original posters more hard to find than some of Le Corbusier’s graphic work.
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.”