Le Corbusier art links 

Le Corbusier: Unité d'Habitation Building, Berlin
Photographed by Claudio Divizia

Original works by Le Corbusier available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Art Institute of Chicago

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

Le Corbusier at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Watercolor collection online

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
17 works online when last checked

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Plan for a Model City, chalk, 1935

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
95 works by or related to the artist

Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "L"

Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
Nature morte limpide, 1924

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
Still Life, 1920

Museums of Geneva, Switzerland (in French)  
Information about a 2006 exhibition

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England
Large 'Grand Confort' chair, 1929

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England
Model of Villa la Roche-Jeanneret, 1923-25

Tate Gallery, London, UK

University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIKART)  
Click "works" & search for artworks; click "exhibitions" & search for current exhibitions worldwide

 

Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Christie's Past Sale Archive   NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive   NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
Notre Dame du Haut

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

PBase Photo Sharing
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arcspace
Photographs from the Monastery of Sainte-Marie de La Tourette

Great Buildings Online

Rocbo Culture (in French)  
Geometric analysis of Le Corbusier's Le Modulor (click "retour" to see more works analyzed)

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Le Corbusier  
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)  

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Frieze Magazine
"Stealing Beauty"

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)  

 

The BBC
Audio selections from an interview with the architect

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   search inside Le Corbusier: The City of Refuge, Paris 1929/33 search inside The Master Builders: Le Corbusier, Mies Van Der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright search inside Le Corbusier - The Creative Search search inside Essential Le Corbusier: L'Esprit Nouveau Articles search inside Le Corbusier's Maison Curutchet search inside The Le Corbusier Guide search inside Le Corbusier Talks With Student: From the Schools of Architecture search inside Le Corbusier and the Continual Revolution in Architecture search inside Le Corbusier: La Villa Savoye search inside Le Corbusier search inside Le Corbusier: Photographs by Rene Burri search inside Le Corbusier: Paris-Chandigarh search inside Le Corbusier look inside Le Corbusier, the Noble Savage: Toward an Archaeology of Modernism look inside Towards a New Architecture look inside Le Corbusier look inside Le Corbusier look inside Le Corbusier: The Poetics of Machine and Metaphor look inside Discoveries: Le Corbusier look inside Le Corbusier: Architect of the Twentieth Century look inside Le Corbusier: Inside the Machine for Living look inside Une petite maison 1923