• Unknown (photographer)
• Lucien Hervé (collector)
• Pierre Savoye (client)
• Madame Pierre Savoye (client)
• Le Corbusier (architect)

Interior view of the entrance hall showing the ramp and pilotis, Villa Savoye, Poissy, France

1931 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.: 16.3 x 23.4 cm

PH1985:0901

• interior view

inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the print, verso, l.c. to l.l.: "VS/17 G" [upside down]; and in blue felt-tip pen ? l.l.: "V" [upside down] stamped - in blue ink, on the print, verso, l.r.: "Photo Lucien HERVÉ / [31, rue] Vineuse, PAR[IS 16e] - PASsy 20 - 65 / MENTION du NOM OBLIGATOIRE" [upside down]; and in black ink, throughout: "Agfa" [diagonally; within stamped lines]

France

• architecture

• entrance hall

© Lucien Hervé