Wordpress theme - posts_per_page issue

Hi to all,

I am building my portfolio page, I have successfully built the project page with custom post types and custom fields and I want to display the recent project in my home page. Everything works just fine but when I am trying to limit the projects by one by adding 'post_per_page' => 1 then my home page is not being displayed at all.

Here is the code I am using:

<div id="latestProject"> <?php

$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'work'
            'posts_per_page' => 1
);
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );

?> <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?> <?php get_template_part( 'content', 'work' ); ?> <?php endwhile; endif; ?> </div>

Any ideas?

Thank you.