Le Corbusier : La mer est toujours présente : Long Island, 1962

By LE CORBUSIER (1887-1965)

LE CORBUSIER (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, called) (1887–1965)

Long Island, 1962

Original lithograph in black (Atelier Michel Cassé, Paris; published by Éditions Forces-Vives, Geneva), — plate from the portfolio “La mer est toujours présente”

Signed with the monogram, dated and inscribed in the plate (LC / CM 62), plate 10 of the suite; on Vélin d’Arches.

Edition of 120 numbered copies (plus a few hors-commerce impressions); from the portfolio, is unnumbered, the justification appearing on the colophon leaf.

Dimensions:

Sheet 56 × 49.5 cm (22 × 19 ½ in.);

Image approx. 46.5 × 46.7 cm (18 ¼ × 18 ⅜ in.), H × L

Condition: Very good. Strong, even impression with deep, solid blacks and crisp white linework; full margins with the characteristic deckle edges of the Arches sheet; the cream wove paper fresh, with at most light handling and faint toning confined to the extreme margins.  Unframed.

Period: 1962

Composed entirely by Le Corbusier and drawn at Cap Martin, the suite “La mer est toujours présente” gathers ten black-and-white lithographs in which biomorphic, shell- and wave-like forms float against deep black grounds structured by fine geometric lines. In this plate the artist has inscribed the title within the image — “Devinez vous-même” — an invitation to the viewer to interpret the ambiguous, dreamlike shapes for themselves. Printed by Michel Cassé in Paris and published by Forces-Vives in Geneva, the portfolio belongs to the architect’s late graphic œuvre, where his painterly and sculptural vocabulary finds its freest expression.

Price : 1100,00 € ( 1273.00 USD )