Swann Galleries - 19th & 20th Century Prints - Sale 2429: Part III, November 3, 2016

532 JEAN DUBUFFET

Peuplement des terres

Color lithograph, 1953. 650x500 mm; 25

x19

inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated

and numbered 17/20 in pencil, lower margin. A superb impression of this very scarce,

early lithograph, with strong colors.Webel 369.

[3,000/5,000]

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LE CORBUSIER

NewYork

Etching, 1946. 90x140 mm; 3

inches, full margins. Signed, inscribed “ep. 1” and

numbered 10/20 in pencil, lower margin. Dedicated to “Serge Wolf amicalement en

souvenir de mon calvaire . . . Dec. ‘46 NewYork” in pencil, extreme lower left. A superb

impression of this extremely scarce, early etching.

SergeWolff was the Assistant to Glenn E. Bennett, Executive Officer of the United Nations

Headquarters Planning Office, NewYork. Le Corbusier was in NewYork during the late

1940s, hammering out the final design plan for the UN Headquarters. His scheme was

eventually combined with the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer’s, under some duress, which

accounts for Le Corbusier’s dedication toWolff “de mon calvaire” (“from my Calvary”), for

what is the UN Headquarters today.

[4,000/6,000]

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