Le Corbusier : Catalogue des dessins, tome III : 1929-1939

Between 1902 and 1965, Le Corbusier (1887–1965) produced several thousand drawings, many of which are exceptionally beautiful. In 2019, AAM Editions, in collaboration with the Le Corbusier Foundation, began publishing them in four volumes.

This third volume of the catalogue raisonné of drawings covers the years 1929 to 1939, when Le Corbusier's drawings and paintings were almost exclusively devoted to the theme of women, finding inspiration in his partner Yvonne, Josephine Baker, Indian women during his travels in Latin America, Moorish women during his travels in North Africa, and bathers and fisherwomen in the Arcachon Basin. This was a period when Le Corbusier devoted himself intensely to painting, dedicating half his days to it and producing some 156 paintings (twice as many as during his Purist period), each preceded by a series of preparatory studies highlighting the creative process.

During the same period, the artist explored the formal richness and poetry of elements found in nature (shells, roots, bones, bark, flint, etc.) or everyday objects repurposed and sometimes associated with organic elements (matchboxes, glass bricks, etc.), which he called " objects with poetic resonance ."