Updated 11 March 2024
On Display Special Exhibition Wing
On Display
Special Exhibition Wing
Site Plan Sketch of the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo
Date | February 17, 1956 |
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Materials and Techniques | Pencil, Coloured Pencil on Vellum Paper |
Size(cm) | 88.9 x 57.2 |
Inscriptions | Titled and signed upper right: TOKIO -Ensemble / Croquis L. C. 17-2-56; Inscribed: bibliothèque / sur ... + toit, conference, Rest., Restaurant |
Category | Drawings |
Collection Number | D.2004-0001 |
Provenance
Purchased by the NMWA, 2004.
Exhibition History
- 2015
- Le Corbusier and Japan: With a Focus on the Three Apprentices Who Built the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, National Archives of Modern Architecture, Agency for Cultural Affairs, 21 July 2015 - 8 November 2015, p. 30-1, col. repr.
Bibliography
- 1984
- Brooks, H. Allen, ed. Le Corbusier: Musée d'Art Occidental, Tokyo, and Other Buildings and Projects, 1957-1961. New York/London/Paris, Garland, 1984 (The Le Corbusier Archive, vol. 30)
- 1988
- Taruki, Yuzo, ed. Kokuritsu-Seiyo-Bijutsukan Setchi-no Jokyo. vol. 3, Kokuritsu-Seiyo-Bijutsukan Kyoryoku-kai-society, 1988, (in Japanese)
- 1995
- Bœsiger, W., ed. Le Corbusier et son atelier rue de Sévres 35: Œuvre complète 1952-1957. Basel/Boston/Berlin, Birkhäuser, rep. 1995 (1st ed. 1957)
- 1996
- Le Corbusier au Japon (exh. cat.). Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, 10 October-24 November 1996; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 30 November 1996-19 January 1997; The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, 8 February-23 March 1997. Tokyo, The Mainichi Newspapers, c1996
- 2002
- Le Corbusier: Kenchiku, Kagu, Ninngen, Tabi-no Kiroku. Tokyo, X-Knowledge corp., 2002, (in Japanese)
- 2006
- Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 39 (Apr. 2004-Mar. 2005), 2006, List of New Acquisitions. p. 38.
- 2015
- Le Corbusier and Japan: With a Focus on the Three Apprentices Who Built the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.). fick studio, ed. Tokyo, Agency for Cultural Affairs, 2015, p. 30, cat. no. 1, col. repr.
- 2021
- When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 66, 176, cat. no. Y2_6 | T2_7, col. repr.