Post-War & Contemporary Art | 31 October & 1 November 2018

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3 After Le Corbusier and Iannis Xenakis Scale model Philips Pavilion plaster, wire, wood and paint, 11,5x27,5x22,5 cm Executed circa 1956/57, probably by Bakema Architects, Rotterdam. The Philips Pavilion was a World’s Fair pavilion designed for Expo ‘58 in Brussels by the office of Le Corbusier. Commissioned by Philips, an electronics company based in the Netherlands, the pavilion was designed to house a multimedia spectacle that celebrated post-war technological progress. Literature: Le Corbusier, ‘Le poème électronique’, Les Editions de Minuit, Paris 1958. ‘Le Corbusier Le Grand’, Phaidon Editors, London 2008, pp. 626–641. Kees Tazelaar, ‘On the Threshold of Beauty. Philips and the Origins of Electronic Music in the Netherlands 1925–1965’, V2_Publishing, Rotterdam 2013. Peter Wever, ‘Inside Le Corbusier’s Philips Pavilion, A Multimedial Space at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair’, nai010, Rotterdam 2015. Jan de Heer & Kees Tazelaar, ‘From Harmony to Chaos: Le Corbusier, Varèse, Xenakis and Le poème électronique’, 1001 Publishers, Amsterdam 2017. €1,000 - €1,500

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4 Le Corbusier (1887-1965) Three aperitif glasses (1960) signed with the artist’s initials and dated ‘21/11/60’ (in the stone), silkscreen on RIVES paper, numbered in pencil 39/50, unframed, full sheet 71x103 cm This print is no. 6 from the portfolio ‘Cortège ...’, (besides the edition of 50 hand signed copies and besides the single sheet edition of 150 black and white copies that are signed in the stone) Literature: ‘Le Corbusier. The graphic work’, Heidi Weber (ed.) Zurich/Montreal 2004, p. 114. €600 - €800

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