Plate (page 139) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle)

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) · 1947–53, published 1955

This one's called Plate (page 139) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle) — an illustrated book by the French artist Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), nineteen forty-seven to nineteen fifty-three, published nineteen fifty-five. A lithograph, drawn in grease on stone: the stone is wetted so the ink takes only where the drawing is. Nothing is cut away. In the picture, look for the abstract shapes and the abstract geometric. Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) was part of the modern architecture movement.

Medium Lithograph from an illustrated book with 121 lithographs, including covers (one with collage) · Dimensions composition: 16 9/16 × 12 1/2" (42 × 31.7 cm); page (each): 16 9/16 × 12 11/16" (42 × 32.3 cm) · Credit The Louis E. Stern Collection

Hanging beside it in Gallery 417: Bag Piece (1964), performed during Perpetual Fluxfest, Cinematheque, New York, June 27, 1965, Plate (page 151) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Mural Painting, Vortograph, The City, Landscape, Cut-out Frame no. 2, Untitled

More by Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) here: Plate (page 151) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle), Plate (page 31) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle), Plate (page 17) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle)