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| Series II. Artwork, portraits, and notebooks (1907-circa 1960), 1949-1965, undated |
| Series II comprises Lucien Hervé's documentation of Le Corbusier's life and activities
not necessarily linked to specific architectural projects. The series is arranged into
subject files created by Hervé. They include a printed chronology of Le Corbusier's life
and major architectural works, portraits of Le Corbusier and his wife Yvonne, often with
professional collaborators and friends, item-by-item documentation of his artwork,
hundreds of pages from Le Corbusier's personal notebooks, images of Le Corbusier's
student and apprentice work, images taken at various exhibitions, and a collection
"d'objets trouvés" which contains miscellaneous reference material. There is some
conceptual overlap, as this series does contain images of paintings and tapestries in
Chandigarh, relief work in concrete at L'Unité d'habitation à Marseille, and murals from
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. This material has been left in its original order, as it must be
noted that Hervé created a separate category for it, to differentiate it from the
documentation of projects.
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| The dates listed in parentheses are the dates of the original material (artwork,
exhibitions, etc.), and do not reflect the specific dates of exposure or printing for
this photographic material, as these dates remain unknown.
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Additional information: In the fall of 2006, Allan Tomlinson rehoused this
collection and conducted a detailed inventory of its scope and contents. All negative
dimensions in this series were taken directly from this legacy data, therefore the data
is accurate, but not consistently expressed in standard archival nomenclature.
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| This series is arranged by subjects, including: Chronology; Artwork; Le Corbusier's
notebooks; Portraits; Exhibitions; and Collections d'objet trouvé.
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Chronology (1887-1965)
17
items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 5 in.
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TS 1-17: Images of different sections of a printed chronology of Le Corbusier's life
and work. Negatives are of various sizes, all are cut down from larger originals, and
some have some portions of text masked out.
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Artwork (1912-1950)
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Le Corbusier's student and apprentice work
(1912-1913)
22
items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 8
cm.
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CF 1-22: Images of displays of drawings and other design work done by Le Corbusier
as a student or apprentice. CF 1-21 is sequence of negatives originally housed in
glassine envelopes numbered from FO-15A to FO-25B by Hervé. The glassine envelopes
have been discarded, and the original numbers have been transcribed onto the paper
tags bearing the GRI's identification numbers. Each original number is placed in
square brackets after the corresponding GRI number.
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Drawings, paintings, sculptures, furniture (1928, circa
1950)
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Images of artworks by Le Corbusier, including sketches, paintings, and sculptures.
Also includes two images of furniture designed by Le Corbusier - the LC1 Sling Chair
(1928) and the LC4 Chaise Lounge (1928).
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Black-and-white negatives |
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| 38 |
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Dossier 13
611
items
6 x 6 cm., 4 x 5 in., 8 x 10
in.
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Images of artworks by Le Corbusier, including paintings, drawings, sculptures,
and tapestry photographed within his studio at 24 rue Nungesser et Coli, as well
as other locations. Notably includes interior views of artwork within Le
Corbusier's cabanon and the restaurant L'Etoile de Mer at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin,
and of E-1027, and views of the mural known as Sous les pilotis,
Graffite à Cap Martin, or Three Women in the
basement of E-1027. Also includes a few photographed copies of press articles
featuring Le Corbusier's work (1954-1965). The majority of the negatives are
numbered and some are accompanied by their original annotated glassine
envelopes.
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No letter code assigned. Hervé's original "Dossier" number for this material
was Dossier 13.
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Dossier 13, continued
834
items
6 x 6 cm, 4 x 5 in., 6.5 x 9 in., 35
mm.
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Images of artworks by Le Corbusier, including drawings, paintings, and some
sculptures. Many depict the artworks clipped to a display board, or leaned up
against a wall to be photographed. The majority of the negatives are numbered
and some are accompanied by their original annotated glassine envelopes.
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No letter code assigned. Hervé's original "Dossier" number for this material
was Dossier 13.
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Furniture
4
items
6 x 7 cm., 6 x 6 cm.
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CM 1-4: Furniture designed by Le Corbusier. Three copies of original negatives
(of poor quality) depicting the metallic skeleton of the LC1 Sling Chair (1928),
and one original negative of a LC4 Chaise Lounge (1928) sitting in front of a
wall painted by Le Corbusier.
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Color negative
1
item
35 mm.
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An image of a television screen, showing a film still depicting people in
Victorian era costume dancing in a ballroom. This negative was found amongst the
black-and-white negatives in Box 38, and has been left with this material.
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Color slides
4
items
35 mm.
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Images of four line drawings of female forms. Slides are unmounted. |
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Le Corbusier's notebooks (1907-circa
1960)
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Voyage de Jeunesse (1907-1911)
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Images of pages from original notebooks believed to have been produced by Le
Corbusier between 1907 and 1911 during his travels through Europe as a young
man.
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Black-and-white negatives
107
items
6 x 6 cm., 6 x 7 cm.
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VO 1-104, 106-108: Images of sketches and writings. |
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Black-and-white transparency
1
item
6 x 7 cm.
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VO 105: An image of a sketch (a study of a landscape) from one of Le
Corbusier's notebooks.
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Miscellaneous notebooks and sketchbooks (circa
1955)
320
items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6
cm., 35 mm., 4 x 5 in.
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NB 1-320: Images of pages from Le Corbusier's various notebooks, includes
writings and sketches. Visible dates include 1957 and 1962.
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Portraits (1920-1965)
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Black-and-white negatives
607
items
6 x 6 cm., 35 mm., 4 x 5 in., 7 x 10
cm.
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This group of negatives consists primarily of informal portraits of Le Corbusier.
It includes images taken at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France featuring Le Corbusier and
Yvonne, Thomas Rebutato, Jean Badovici, and others, many taken at the restaurant
L'Etoile de Mer and at E-1027. It includes images of Le Corbusier painting and
sculpting, of Atelier Le Corbusier on rue de Sèvres, Paris, of Le Corbusier visiting
L'Unité d'habitation à Marseille during and after construction, and six contact
prints of portraits of Le Corbusier in his Boulogne-Billancourt studio apartment. It
also includes images of a deceased Yvonne Gallis in her coffin (1957). The majority
of the negatives are numbered and some are accompanied by original annotated
glassine envelopes.
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While the majority of these images (especially those 6 x 6 cm.) were taken by Hervé
in the 1950s and 1960s, this file undoubtedly contains copies of images taken by
other photographers. The images of Jean Badovici are original negatives, but they
are believed to be pre-war and were not taken by Hervé. There are also images of Le
Corbusier at Pessac, and a group portrait including Fernand Léger, both dated circa
1928, that were not taken by Hervé.
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No letter code assigned. Hervé's original "Dossier" number for this material was
Dossier 12.
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| 40 |
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Color negatives
328
items
35 mm., 6 x 6 cm., 6 x 9 cm., 4 x 5 in., 13 x 12.5
cm.
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Images of paintings, drawings, and sculptures by Le Corbusier, as well as portraits
of Le Corbusier posing with his artwork. Notably includes both sketches and
completed artwork for Chandigarh, images of the exterior of Etoile de Mer at
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, and images of a deceased Yvonne Gallis in her coffin
(1957).
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No letter code assigned. Hervé's original "Dossier" number for this material was
Dossier C3.
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Exhibitions
undated
209
items
black-and-white negatives
6 x 6
cm., 6 x 9 cm., 35 mm.
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XS 1-209: Images of unidentified exhibitions of Le Corbusier's work, showing the
arrangement and installation of artwork that includes paintings, sculptures, and
architectural models. Also includes images of photographic prints of the exhibitions
clipped to a display board.
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Collections d'objets trouvés
undated
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Black-and-white negatives
66
items
6 x 6 cm., 35 mm., 4 x 5 in.
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A collection of images that may have been used as reference, source, or planning
material. Includes images of unidentified paintings, sketches, and texts, as well as
architectural prespective drawings from a book, unidentified furniture, and images
of the cover of Le Corbusier's Vers une Architecture, the 24th Edition.
It also includes images of a crab shell, possibly the shell collected on Long
Island, New York, that supposedly inspired the design of La Chapelle de Ronchamp.
Many of the negatives are accompanied by their original annotated glassine
envelopes.
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No letter code assigned. Hervé's original "Dossier" number for this material was
Dossier 15.
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| 36 |
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Color slides
22
items
35 mm.
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Exterior views of unidentified sites and buildings, and one exterior view of the
Charles and Ray Eames House, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. One slide is labeled
"Förderer," possibly a building by architect Walter M. Förderer.
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Color transparency
1
item
3 x 6 cm.
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Image of an architectural model of De Bijenkorf Department Store, Rotterdam, the
Netherlands, by Marcel Breuer, 1957. Transparency has been cut down from a larger
size.
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