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

Interior view of the master bathroom, Villa Savoye, Poissy, France

1945 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.: 11.3 x 12.5 cm

PH1985:0911

• interior view

- The photograph and inscription on the verso, u.r. of the print have been cropped.

inscribed and numbered - by unknown hands, in blue ball-point pen, on the print, verso, u.r.: "VS 1/1" [partially visible]; and in pen and black ink, b. to l.r.: with title stamped - in blue ink, on the print, verso, c.: "Photo Lucien HERVÉ / 31, rue Vineuse, [PARIS 16e] - PASsy 20 - 65 / MENTION du NOM OBLIGATOIRE"; and in black ink, throughout: "LEONAR" [sideways; within circular stamp]

France

• architecture

• bathtub
• master bedroom
• bathroom

© Lucien Hervé