Le Corbusier valuation
Swiss-French architect who was also a painter, sculptor, printmaker and designer of tapestries.
Le Corbusier (1887–1965) was born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret in La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, and took French nationality in 1930.
What a work by Le Corbusier is worth
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Bio
Le Corbusier (1887–1965) was born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret in La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, and took French nationality in 1930. In Paris in 1918 he met the painter Amédée Ozenfant, and together they published the manifesto Après le cubisme and founded Purism, painting still lifes of bottles, glasses and guitars reduced to clear outlines and flat colour. He went on to design buildings in Europe, Japan, India and the Americas, among them the Villa Savoye, the Unité d'habitation in Marseille and the government buildings of Chandigarh, and in 2016 seventeen of his projects were inscribed together as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He painted throughout his life, made sculpture with the Breton cabinetmaker Joseph Savina, and designed tapestries, furniture and enamels.
Away from architecture, what comes to market is paintings, drawings, collages, tapestries and prints, the lithographs including the portfolio Le Poème de l'angle droit, published by Tériade in 1955. Paintings are recorded in the catalogue raisonné by Naïma and Jean-Pierre Jornod, published in 2005, and a buyer will want a painting to be in it or a clear account of why it is not. For prints, the edition, signature and publisher matter, since some lithographs and posters were issued unsigned. Tapestries should carry the weaver's label and be checked for fading, moth and repairs. Furniture made under licence is a separate, design market.
At a glance
- Born
- 6 October 1887, La Chaux-de-Fonds
- Died
- 27 August 1965, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
- Movement
- Purism
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