La pêcheuse d’huitres, 1935. Photo by Pernille Sandberg.
Le déjeuner près du pare, 1928. Image © The Foundation Le Corbusier / FLC ADGAP.
Trois figures de femme et chien. Image © The Foundation Le Corbusier / FLC ADGAP.
Trois baigneuses, 1935. Image © The Foundation Le Corbusier / FLC ADGAP.
Le Corbusier & Yvonne Gallis. Image © The Foundation Le Corbusier / FLC ADGAP.
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Currently on show at the extraordinary modernist home in Oslo,
“I am drawn to places where people live naturally,” he wrote in a letter to his mother in 1932. “Le Piquey is full of life that is healthy, calm and to scale: to a human scale… This is what civilisations destroy, plunging people into artifice and misfortune.”
Le Corbusier tirelessly sketched whatever he found on the beach: boats, shells, cones, driftwood and stones. Later, back home, he abstracted this subject matter in his paintings.
With reproductions of sketches, written notes, photographs and paintings, the exhibition presents a less-known aspect of Le Corbusier as a dreamy and humorous person.
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