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Le Corbusier
[Swiss-born French Architect, 1887-1965]
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Le Corbusier Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Commercial Galleries: Galleries: We invite you to register and list your site (no charge for this service)
Original works by Le Corbusier available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW! Many works online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Chaise Longue 2072
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Watercolor collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Includes biographical information about the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable) Plan for a Model City, chalk, 1935
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
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
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
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
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
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
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 (Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
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)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Le Corbusier  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Frieze Magazine "Stealing Beauty"
Multimedia:
The BBC Audio selections from an interview with the architect
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