Mar 19, 2015 - Sale 2376

Sale 2376 - Lot 30

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
"WILL FRANCE HAVE AN ARCHITECTURAL REVOLUTION?" (ARCHITECTS.) LE CORBUSIER. Typed Letter Signed, with a few holograph corrections, to Marie-Anne Febvre, in French, approving of her plans for a series of radio interviews, stating that he knew Dumay from Radio-Jeunesse in Vichy, stating that he is notifying Boll of the collaboration, complementing her on her sensitive articles, agreeing with her concerning Renoir: "Will France have an architectural revolution?", discussing the working title, stating that he has informed Boll that she would report on "Charte d'Athenes" at Renoir's, promising that copies of the relevant letters would be sent to her from the Board of Directors, suggesting the possibility of using her talents as painter to illustrate the drawbacks and advantages of living in a house of "Radiant City" or "city-garden" design, conveying his wife's apologies for her reception, and approving of her paintings: "very close to what I consider the truth." 2 pages, 4to, written on the recto and verso of a single sheet; folds. With the original envelope. Paris, 5 May 1943