Unité no 14 - Tête. Unité - Head. by Charles-Édouard Jeanneret

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret - Le Corbusier, 1887-1967
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Unité no 14 - Tête. Unité - Head.

Original etching with aquatint printed in colours. 1953/65. Signed in pencil. Inscribed in pencil as H.C. - proof 'hors commerce''. Etched in August 1953, with the date in the plate. Edition printed at the studio of Lacourière, 1965. Issued in the series: Unité, Paris 1965.
Provenance: Proof from the collection of Corbusier's Estate

Excellent impression with very fresh colours. On pale cream wove Rives paper. Excellent condition. Full margins. Sheet: 22 3/8 x 17 7/8ins. Plate: 16 3/8 x 12 3/8ins (415x314mm).

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The series ?Unité? was the most important group of prints on which Corbusier worked in the later part of his life. In it he sought to combine both the artistic and architectural concepts which had dominated his work throughout the previous 40 years.

Corbusier had made his earliest prints in the 1930?s working in lithography and his first etchings in the 40?s. During the 1950?s and 60?s up until his death he was increasingly inspired by the way that printmaking techniques could combine a quality of three-dimensionalism with the two dimensions of drawing. He began work on the Unité prints in 1953, and worked on the 25 works in the proposed series at various times over the following 10 years. He series remained unfinished and was issued in 1965 with some of the works incomplete and some prints unsigned when Corbusier was no longer well enough to finish the project.