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Raoul Albert La Roche, born in 23 fébruary 1889 at Basel (in Switzerland) and dead the 15 june 1965, in the same city.

It was a banker but also a donator and collector of art.

Childhood
Raoul Albert La Roche was born (February 23, 1889) and grew up in Basel (Switzerland) in a bourgeois family, very close to the world of art.

Professional carreer in France
In 1912, at the age of 23, he moved to Paris (France) to work for the "Banque suisse et française" (BSF) who will become in 1917 the "Crédit commercial de France". He will make his career there until his retirement in 1954.

Its links with the artistic world
In 1918, Raoul Albert La Roche met Le Corbusier and he was seduced by the purism painting of which he then laid the foundations.

In 1922, on the occasion of a trip to Venice and Vicenza with Le Corbusier, Raoul Albert La Roche plans to have a villa built by his friend. This project will become the "Villa della Rocca" in Paris, at the "Square du Docteur-Blanche". The villa will be built in joint ownership with that of the brother of Le Corbusier, the violinist Albert Jeanneret and will house his collections of paintings, paintings by Picasso, Braque , Fernand Léger. Raoul Albert La Roche will donate this villa to Le Corbusier to install his foundation.

Death
Roual Albert La Roche died on 15 June 1965 in Basel. He bequeathed one third of his collections to the musée du Louvre, another third to his hometown (Basel) and the last third to the fondation Le Corbusier.

Sources et references


Internals Links

 * purism
 * Le Corbusier
 * Villa La Roche
 * musée du Louvre
 * Fondation Le Corbusier

To read too

 * Jacques Sbriglio, Le Corbusier: les villas la Roche-Jeanneret, éd. Fondation Le Corbusier, 1997, ISBN 376435433X
 * La Revue des arts, vol. 3 à 4, pages 250-251, éd. Conseil des musées nationaux, 1953
 * Pierre Courthion, D'une palette à l'autre: mémoires d'un critique d'art, éd. Baconnière Arts, 2004, ISBN 2915306036
 * Andrew Ayers, The Architecture of Paris: An Architectural Guide, pages 245-247, Édition Axel Menges, 2004, ISBN 393069896X
 * Christopher Green, Art in France, 1900-1940, page 57-58, ed. Yale University Press, 2003, ISBN 0300099088

Externals links

 * Notice in a dictionary or general encyclopedia : Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse
 * Fine Arts Resources : Index of Historic Collectors and Dealers of Cubism • Union List of Artist Names
 * Fine Arts Resources : Index of Historic Collectors and Dealers of Cubism • Union List of Artist Names