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an old black and white photo of a large building with many windowsa green book with a picture of a building on itan old photo of a view of a city from a windowa black and white photo of a group of men standing in the back of a truckan old photo of a large building with a lot of windowspictures of different buildings on display on the wallblack and white photograph of a bunch of photographs on a black boardblack and white photograph of a display of old photographs of a cityseveral pictures of a series of photographs of a family in their living roomseveral black and white photos of a woman and a child in a kitchenan old black and white photo of a tall building with a lot of windows
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431 - DE RENZIS (18), Louis SCIARLI (32), Marcel COEN (7)
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Estimate €15,000 - €20,000
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DE RENZIS (18), Louis SCIARLI (32), Marcel COEN (7) Report on the Le Corbusier Building, c.1947–1960. - 57 period silver gelatine prints, most with the photographer’s stamp on the reverse. Construction, Inauguration by Eugène Claudius Petit, Minister for Reconstruction and Urban Planning appointed in 1948, and Vladimir Bodiansky, architect; the spiral staircase; Le Corbusier and the actor Jean- Pierre Aumont; the laying of the foundation stone; apartment interiors; ‘The Milkman’; ‘The Housewife’; cultural and sporting activities; exterior views of the building… Included are two signed and inscribed autographs by Le Corbusier. Various formats: 9 x 9 cm to 18 x 24 cm - 19 silver gelatin prints (9 x 6 cm) mounted on sheets: model of Le Corbusier’s building by Photo Urbanisme (18 x 23.5 cm), construction of buildings on Avenue Foch (14) and Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse Corbusier (4) - 1 view of the Coca-Cola advertising lorry parked at the Corbusier building (silver gelatin print, 11.5 x 17.5 cm) - 1 booklet containing 10 silver gelatine prints taken by an amateur photographer in a Le Corbusier flat (9 x 14 cm). Enclosed is a ‘Mammouth’ postcard of the Cité Radieuse and a small printed booklet of 12 pages (12 x 8 cm) entitled ‘Le Corbusier’s Unité d’habitation in Marseille’, illustrated with photographs by Lucien Hervé, Simone Herman, Doisneau, de Renzis, Blumenthal …
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About the sale Paul BENARROCHE Collection and others | Old and modern photographs | Part II
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Auction time 10/23/2026 at 2:00 PM
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