• Lucien Hervé (photographer)
• Le Corbusier (architect)
• André Wogenscky (architect)
• Vladimir Bodiansky (engineer)

View of the roof of Unité d'habitation showing the playground and mountains in the distance, Marseille, France

1952 or later

- A group of 178 gelatin silver prints acquired from Lucien Hervé in 1985 are of built works by Le Corbusier in France including: 124 photographs of Unité d'habitation, Marseille, 19 photographs of Maison A Jaoul and Maison B Jaoul, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 34 photographs of Villa Savoye, Poissy, and one photograph of a building, possibly by Fernand Pouillon, possibly located in France. The prints are of different sizes and show details and general views, predominantly exteriors of the buildings.

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 16.8 x 18.7 cm

PH1985:0832

• exterior view

numbered - by an unknown hand, in red ball-point pen, on the print, verso, c.r.: "XXII - 72" ["XXII" underlined] [sideways] inscribed - by an unknown hand, in black felt-tip pen, on the print, verso, u.l. to u.r.: "Le Corbusier / toit de l'unité d'habitation / de Marseille (cité [?])" stamped - in blue ink, on the print, verso, l.c.: "lucien hervé / 31, rue Vineuse, PARIS - 16e - PASsy 20 - 65 / MENTION du [N]OM OBLIGATOIRE / ses Droits de reproduction réservés / COPYRIGHT" [upside down]

France

• architecture

• roof

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