Seven Sketches of a City Apartment

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)

Title

Seven Sketches of a City Apartment

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1912–1965

Medium

Pen and brown ink on tan wove paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, lower right, in graphite: "LeCorbusier 1922/front"; lower left, in pen and blue ink: "Roman"; inscribed, verso, center, upper center, in graphite: "La Roche" (?); center, lower center, in graphite: "La Roche" (?); center, lower left, in graphite: "17"; center, along bottom, in pen and blue ink: "Roman / L'homme..."; center, center right, in pen and blue ink: "Roman"; verso, upper right, in graphite: "La Roche" (?); verso, lower left, in graphite: "23"; verso, lower right, in graphite: "La Roche"(?); verso, lower right, in pen and blue ink: "Roman"

Dimensions

Folded: 25 × 16.3 cm (9 7/8 × 6 7/16 in.); Unfolded: 25 × 32.6 cm (9 7/8 × 12 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Bequest of Hedwig B. Schniewind

Reference Number

1963.430

Copyright

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / FLC

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