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Lot Essay
The Fondation Le Corbusier has confirmed the authenticity of this sculpture.
Joseph Savina and Le Corbusier met in 1935, developing a friendship that would turn into a fruitful collaboration ten years later. With mutual admiration, the Breton woodworker and the artist extensively exchanged ideas about formal beauty, as shown by their abundant correspondence. Under Le Corbusier's vigilant eye, Savina executed numerous carvings based on the artists' drawings, including La Biche. As Le Corbusier would comment on those sculptures in letters to Savina in 1944 and 1947: "This type of sculpture comes into what I call the plastic-acoustic: that is to say forms that both speak and listen" (quoted in P. Sers, op.cit., p. 97) and further "Your works are just the right size; art for the apartment; art for the loving collector" (quoted in J. Jenger, Choix de lettres par Le Corbusier, Basel, 2001, p. 283).
Joseph Savina and Le Corbusier met in 1935, developing a friendship that would turn into a fruitful collaboration ten years later. With mutual admiration, the Breton woodworker and the artist extensively exchanged ideas about formal beauty, as shown by their abundant correspondence. Under Le Corbusier's vigilant eye, Savina executed numerous carvings based on the artists' drawings, including La Biche. As Le Corbusier would comment on those sculptures in letters to Savina in 1944 and 1947: "This type of sculpture comes into what I call the plastic-acoustic: that is to say forms that both speak and listen" (quoted in P. Sers, op.cit., p. 97) and further "Your works are just the right size; art for the apartment; art for the loving collector" (quoted in J. Jenger, Choix de lettres par Le Corbusier, Basel, 2001, p. 283).