Nature morte à la cruche (Still Life with Jug)

1920

Le Corbusier French, 1887-1965

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About the Artwork

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret made this drawing in 1920, the same year he adopted the pseudonym Le Corbusier, with which he became famous as an architect and urban planner. In this still life, he celebrated the clean lines of modern, machine-made objects. Reduced to geometric shapes, a guitar, a stack of plates, a milk jug, and other objects are simultaneously depicted from the sides and the top. The artist signed the drawing twice — first in red conté crayon in the lower left with his name, “Jeanneret” and later with his initials in charcoal at the right “L-C” for Le Corbusier as well as “20” for the year, 1920.

Title Nature morte à la cruche (Still Life with Jug)

Artwork Date 1920

Artist Le Corbusier

Life Dates 1887-1965

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

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Medium Charcoal, black and red conté crayon on vellum-style paper

Dimensions Sheet: 23 9/16 × 31 5/16 inches (59.8 × 79.5 cm) Framed: 33 1/4 × 43 1/4 inches (84.5 × 109.9 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Bequest of Margaret Herz Demant

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2018.130

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Signed Signed, in red crayon, lower left: Jeanneret Initialed and dated in black crayon, lower right: L-C | 20

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Provenance

(Arteba Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland);
(B. C. Holland, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, USA);
(Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA);
1987, purchased by Margaret H. Demant (Huntington Woods, Michigan, USA);
2018-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Quarcoopome, Nii O. Extraordinary Eye, Extraordinary Gift: The Legacy of Margaret Herz Demant. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2018, p. 20; p. 38.

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Le Corbusier, Nature morte à la cruche (Still Life with Jug), 1920, charcoal, black and red conté crayon on vellum-style paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Margaret Herz Demant, 2018.130.