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- Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) 1887–1965
- Recipient
- Jacques Lipchitz 1891–1973
- Title
- Postcard from Le Corbusier to Jacques Lipchitz
- Date
- 29 December 1926
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Rubin Lipchitz, March 1989; the cataloguing and selective digitisation of this archive collection was supported by Mr Timm Bergold, 2023
- Reference
- TGA 897/1/1/242/1
Description
The sender can be identified as Le Corbusier only indirectly. The signature is covered by paper tape. But the sender knows Lipchitz very closely, he passes his greetings not only to his wife, but also to 'Dede', that is Andre Shimkevich, Lipchitz's step-son. The postcard itself was torn in halves and then glued together by the paper tape. On the back there is a photograph of 'Pavillon de l'Esp[...](Le Corbusier et P.Jeanneret, Arch}' and the 'Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs, 1925', with a sculpture of J. Lipchitz on the front. The sender tells: 'We have you received the photographs of your work. It made us a pleasure to accept them as an evidence of our friendship'. There is another copy of this postcard, which is blank and intact, no tears (see TGA 897/6/6).
Archive context
- Personal and professional papers of Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897 (451)
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- Correspondence TGA 897/1 (212)
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- Correspondence to and from Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1 (183)
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- Correspondence from Le Corbusier to Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1/242 (2)
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- Postcard from Le Corbusier to Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1/242/1