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Jeanneret, Charles-Edouard (Le Corbusier)
Les Oiseaux, 118/130
1953

In the 1920s, Le Corbusier emerged as the most important architect of the “International Style” in France while continuing to produces works on paper and canvas. In this piece, two faces are framed by a rectangular window while the upper and lower halves of the composition are united by a vertically oriented fish-like shape. Le Corbusier saw his career as one full of failures. Later in life he would say, “life is right and the architect is wrong.”._

 
Jeanneret, Charles-Edouard (Le Corbusier)
born La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland 1887; died Cap Martin, France 1965
Les Oiseaux, 118/130
1953
ink, lithographic on paper
46.0 x 34.0 cm (to sight edge); 41.8 x 31.8 cm (plate)
Gift from Mary Ann and Larry Miller, 2001
44-004

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