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Drawing, Drawing after a Serbian Vase
This is a drawing. It was created by Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris). It is dated 1926 and we acquired it in 1936. Its medium is graphite, red-brown crayon on white wove paper, mounted on canvas. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Museum purchase from James B. Ford and Peter Cooper Hewitt Estate Funds.
- Book, Entrée d’Un Mosquée a Alexandrie, plate 3, from Les Arts Arabes:...
- cloth and printed paper.
- Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, DC.
- 13.2012.4
Its dimensions are
24.2 x 32 cm (9 1/2 x 12 5/8 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed in black ink, on left: Premiers croquis fait/ en 1926/ (Album à dessin)/ en septembre dans/ la propriéte/ "Le Lac"/ au bord du/ lac Léman: and on right: villa Stein/ à Garches/ achevée en 1927/ Le Corbusier (underlined).
Cite this object as
Drawing, Drawing after a Serbian Vase; Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris) (Swiss, active France, 1887–1965); France; graphite, red-brown crayon on white wove paper, mounted on canvas; 24.2 x 32 cm (9 1/2 x 12 5/8 in.); Museum purchase from James B. Ford and Peter Cooper Hewitt Estate Funds; 1936-60-7
