Le Corbusier
La Chaise de la Racine

La Chaise de la Racine

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La Chaise de la Racine
La Chaise de la Racine
ArtistFrench, born Switzerland, 1887–1965
CultureFrench
Titles
  • La Chaise de la Racine
  • The Root Chair
Datebefore 1956
PlaceFrance
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 7/16 × 8 7/16 in. (21.4 × 21.4 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 11 in. (35.4 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LineThe Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection
Object number91.818
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionIt was surely with tongue in cheek that the great architect and designer Le Corbusier, famed for his innovative forms and use of nontraditional materials, photographed this cast-off clump of root and christened it The Root Chair, as if it were his latest creation—a “readymade” chaise longue.
ProvenanceAllan Chasanoff, New York; given to MFAH, 1991.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
lower left below image in ink " La Chaise de la Racine "
verso in pencil nearly entire surface of sheet a history of existing photograph with a signature an date " Charles H. Traub/July 1987 "
lower right corner below image in ink " Le Corbusier ", see also Inscriptions

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