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Plate (page 17) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle)

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

This is Plate (page 17) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle) — an illustrated book by Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), nineteen forty-seven to nineteen fifty-three, published nineteen fifty-five. It's lithograph from an illustrated book with 121 lithographs, including covers (one with collage), about 39 by 31 centimeters.

Medium Lithograph from an illustrated book with 121 lithographs, including covers (one with collage) · Dimensions composition (irreg.): 15 3/8 × 12 3/8" (39 × 31.4 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: Plate (page 151) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle), Bag Piece (1964), performed during Perpetual Fluxfest, Cinematheque, New York, June 27, 1965

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Laocoön, Mussel's Face from Arp: Hairy Hearts 1923-26, Kings before the Deluge 1952-53 (Arp: Behaarte Herzen 1923-26, Könige vor der Sintflut 1952-53), Fish from Arp: Hairy Hearts 1923-26, Kings before the Deluge 1952-53 (Arp: Behaarte Herzen 1923-26, Könige vor der Sintflut 1952-53), Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, He Is Arisen, Révélateur Tachiste

More by Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) here: Plate (page 139) from Le Poème de l'angle droit (The Poem of the Right Angle), 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)