Etude de Trois Figures sur une Banquette. Etude de Sculpture No 1 - Oeuvres Plastiques 1936/38. by Charles-Édouard Jeanneret

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret - Le Corbusier, 1887-1967
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Etude de Trois Figures sur une Banquette. Etude de Sculpture No 1 - Oeuvres Plastiques 1936/38.

Original lithograph in colours. 1936/38. Signed in pencil. Signed and dated 1936 in the stone. Numbered in pencil from the edition of 100 (36/100). Issued in the series: Oeuvres Plastiques, 1938. Published by Albert Morancé, Paris 1938. From the rare signed edition printed specially by Corbusier in support of a Museum.
Ref: To be included in the forthcoming catalogue by E.Mouchet.

Excellent impression with sparkling fresh colours. On off-white chine applique on a pale cream wove Arches-type backing sheet as issued. Absolutely excellent fresh condition. Full margins. Sheet: 15 1/4 x 19 7/8ins. Image: 7 1/4 x 10 3/8ins. 184x265mm.

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The composition above, and its companion opposite, are amongst the earliest lithographs drawn by Le Corbusier. In their combination of monumentality and classicism they express the quality of tactile plasticity which dominated Corbusier?s work in both architecture and painting during the 1930?s.

In the 1920?s Corbusier joined Amadée Ozenfant and Leger in the Purist movement, a concentration on a purity and clarity of form derived from machine manufacture. In the 1930?s as a reaction to the lack of emotion in this style Corbusier, like for example Picasso at around the same date, turned to classical themes. For Corbusier this was not the elegance and flow of the classical sculpture but its sense of alive surface. In his architecture this was expressed through textural surfaces, and in his architecture through the textural battening of concrete finishes.

The lithograph above, like its companion opposite, was issued in a series under the title ?Oeuvres Plastiques?. Published by one of the far-sighted editors of the period Albert Morancé, the signed edition of 100 impressions was sold on Corbusier?s instructions as a ?benefit? for a Museum.