• Le Corbusier (draughtsman)

View through an arch to the Assembly Building, the Governor's Palace and the Open Hand Monument, Chandigarh, India

1951

- This pen sketch by Le Corbusier shows the proposed Assembly Building, the Governor's Palace and the Open Hand monument for Chandigargh, India. The inscription at the l.r. indicates that the sketch was made in New York during June of 1951. Le Corbusier made the drawing for Arthur Drexler, probably while explaining the project to him (Malkin 1987).

• dessin conceptuel

Pen and black ink, traces of graphite, on paper

sheet: 53.2 x 56.1 cm

DR1987:0097

• line drawing
• sketch

• pictorial drawing

• general view

- There are fragments of tape and traces of glue at the corners and t. edge at verso.

inscribed, signed and dated - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, l.r.: "Chandigarh / (Punjab) / L-C / 51 New York june" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, l.r.: "A"

• architecture

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