Jun 17, 2021 - Sale 2573

Sale 2573 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
LE CORBUSIER. Two items: Autograph Note Signed, with three small ink drawings * Photograph Signed. The manuscript, probably to an editor, sending the captions and page layouts for three illustrations [likely for Le Corbusier's Sur les 4 routes, Paris: Gallimard, 1941], in French. The drawings, very rough sketches representing the illustrations. 1 page, 4to, onionskin paper; short closed tears at folds. The photograph, bust portrait showing him in 3/4 view. Signed in the blank lower margin. 5 3/4x4 inches; remnants of hinging at upper edge verso. Np, 22 June 1930; nd

Additional Details

"Main Road.
"Put the headings for the illustrations in the margin.
"Montevideo--Sao Paulo
"Aerial view--side view Rio de Janeiro. The roadway 100 meters in height.
"Buenos Ayres [sic]--the business quarter.
"Unless I am mistaken, you are publishing these 3 plates? If this is the case, here is the text of the headings and their location."