THE FINE ARTS

DRAWINGS

L-C "To draw, this means first of all to look with your own eyes, to observe, to discover. To draw means to learn, to see how things and people come about, grow, prosper and die. One needs to draw in order to absorb what one has seen, so that it remains recorded for the entire lifetime in our memory."

Le Corbusier's first drawings were still lifes, and he took up theme again and again over his entire creative life, using different techniques. The preferred motifs therein were everyday's objects or objects found in nature, such as pine cones, shells and bones which Le Corbusier collected and called "objects of poetic inspiration".

Ubu-Corbu / 1965: 58 x 49,5 cm Watercolour on paper	1947: 64 x 48 cm / without titel Gouache on paper
without titel / 1935: 27 x 42 cm Pencil, ink and pastel on paper	109 x 82 cm / Bellefond Pencil on paper

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