Louis SOUTTER (1871-1942), "Ornement en volutes avec tête", Indian ink on squared paper. H. 21 x 27 cm This scrolled ornament, done in pen and black ink on a page from an account book, already foreshadows the work of drawn comments that Soutter would develop in the early 1930s, reinvesting this type of ornamentation in the margins of books, In particular on a copy of the theoretical work Une Maison, Un Palais by his first cousin Le Corbusier, which Le Corbusier gave him as a gift (Facsimile Une Maison, Un Palais, Le Corbusier, Enluminures Louis Soutter, Postface by Julie Borgeaud, Fage éditions, 2011). Julie Borgeaud Provenance: Collection H.-L. Mermod then Françoise Mermod then Catherine Clerc-de Goumöens References Bibliography Michel THEVOZ, "Louis Soutter: Catalogue de l'œuvre", Edition L'Âge d'homme, Zurich, work reproduced on page 208, ref. 1747. Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, "Exposition Louis Soutter", Imprimerie E. RUCKSTUHL S.A. Lausanne, work referenced at number 42.