The painter Le Corbusier; Eileen Gray's villa E1027 and le Cabanon

Benton, Tim (2023). The painter Le Corbusier; Eileen Gray's villa E1027 and le Cabanon. Berlin: Birkhauser.

Abstract

In 1938 and again in 1939 Le Corbusier painted 7 murals on the walls of Jean Badovici's villa E1027 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, designed in large part by Eileen Gray. Badovici was delighted with these murals but did not tell Gray about them. When she found out, after they had been published in 1948, she was understandably furious. This book is an inquiry into why Le Corbusier painted these murals, having always argued against figurative painting in domestic interiors. The iconographical origins of the paintings are investigated and there is a discussion of the paintings that Le Corbusier made later in the cabanon he designed for his own use in 1952 and on the walls of the Etoile de mer restaurant which he frequented from 1949 until his death.

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An analysis and explanation of mural paintings by Le Corbusier painted between 1928 and 1952.

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