• Lucien Hervé (photographer)
• Le Corbusier (architect)
• Michel Jaoul (client)

View of the northwest façade of Maison B Jaoul, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

1951-1955 or later

- A group of 178 gelatin silver prints acquired from Lucien Hervé in 1985 are of built works by Le Corbusier in France including: 124 photographs of Unité d'habitation, Marseille, 19 photographs of Maison A Jaoul and Maison B Jaoul, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 34 photographs of Villa Savoye, Poissy, and one photograph of a building, possibly by Fernand Pouillon, possibly located in France. The prints are of different sizes and show details and general views, predominantly exteriors of the buildings.

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 15.1 x 23.4 cm

PH1985:0882

• exterior view

inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in blue ball-point pen, on the print, verso, u.c.: "J - VIII - 60" ["VIII" underlined] stamped - in blue ink, on the print, verso, c.: "Photo Lucien HERVÉ / 11, Rue Soyer - NEUILLY - s SEINE - M 64 - 66 / MENTION du NOM OBLIGATOIRE / ses Droits de reproduction réserves / OEuvre de Monsieur LECORBUSIER / ses Droits réserves SPADEM - PARIS"; and in black ink, throughout: "Agfa - / Brovira" [diagonally; within stamped lines]

France

• architecture

© Lucien Hervé