Letter from Le Corbusier, Paris, to Paul Rosenberg, 1948 May 18 : autograph manuscript signed.

He has received Rosenberg's letter and the catalogue. He's glad that Rosenberg is happy. He's begun studies for a painting that he's going to paint himself in Paris. He has just returned from Vienna, where he went to the opening of the French exhibition Architecture et Urb[anisme] with General Béthouart, French High Commissioner in Vienna. He gave a talk at the Mozartsaal about the Synthese des arts majeurs [see 3500.266]. Hundreds of spectators ran up to the stage to congratulate him. No one has invited him to New York, especially not the Harrison Gang [see 3500.266]. He is very unhappy about the scandalous theft of his project for the UN by the New Yorkers and other UN people. The special edition of Architecture d'aujourd'hui has come out. It's very complete and better than the American books published by Reynal and Hitchcock and Macmillan. He asks if Rosenberg has a few photos of the rooms of his galleries with Le Corbusier's walls on display. Concerning reproductions, he says that the works of French photographers are pitiful, in terms of both the quality of the photos and the paper. He thinks that Rosenberg can have copies made of the paintings [in New York]. He'd like a copy of each. He's written about Boston.