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Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, 1946. In-12 broché de 45 pages au format 15,5 x 11,5 cm. Superbe couverture à rabats illustrée. Dos carré avec titre. Plats et intérieur frais, malgré d'infimes frottis aux coins, aux mors, ainsi qu'un nom inscrit en page de faux titre. Catalogue d'exposition des oeuvres d'Alexandre Calder qui eut lieu à Paris, à la galerie Louis Carré, du 26 octobre au 16 novembre 1946, avec textes inédits de Jean-Paul Sartre et James Jones Sweeney. Illustrations en noir et couleurs. Photographies de Herbert Matter. Très bel état général. Rarissime édition originale.

Uncommon art catalogue for Alexander Calder's Paris exhibition of mobiles at Galerie Carré 25 October to 16 November 1946. 12mo (15.6 x 12 cms). pp 35, [17] Frontispiece photograph of Calder in his studio in Roxbury, Connecticut. 7 plates, of which four in colour (of which two are double-spread), and one colour headpiece. Original printed wrappers, French flaps, upper wrapper with a photograph of one of his mobiles in motion. Text in French with contributions by Jean-Paul Sartre, and James Johnson Sweeney. 24 pieces were included in the exhibition, created between 1941 and 1946. The cover, frontispiece and three black and white plates from photographs by Herbert Matter. [From Calder Foundation website] Calder produces a series of small-scale works, many from scraps trimmed during the making of other objects. Let's mail these little objects to [Louis] Carré, in Paris, and have a show, Duchamp suggests when he sees them; by taking advantage of the newly available international airmail system, Duchamp's action predates "mail art" by nearly two decades. Carré responds to Duchamp's proposal. Interested show Calder miniatures would also gladly exhibit mobile sculptures available all sizes and colours. After 14 August 1945. Intrigued by the limitations on parcel size imposed by the U.S. Postal Service, Calder begins creating larger works for his show at Galerie Louis Carré that are collapsible and intended to be reassembled upon arrival in Paris. 5 6 June 1946: Calder takes his first transatlantic flight from New York to Paris to prepare for the exhibition at Galerie Louis Carré, Paris. 23 July 1946: The exhibition at Galerie Louis Carré is delayed and Calder returns to New York. 25 October 16 November 1946: "Alexander Calder: Mobiles, Stabiles, Constellations" is on view at Galerie Louis Carré, Paris. Henri Matisse attends the exhibition. Along with photographs by Matter, the catalogue includes two essays Sartre's "Les Mobiles de Calder" and Sweeney's "Alexander Calder.". Book.

12mo (15.6 x 12 cm). 35, [17] pages. Frontispiece photograph of Calder in his studio in Roxbury, 7 plates, of which four in color (and two of these double-page), and one color heapiece of a mobile. Printed wrappers, the front wrapper with a photographic image of one of his mobiles in motion. First edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Galerie Louis Carre in Paris that ran October 25 through November 16, 1946. Text in French with contributions by Jean-Paul Sartre, and James Johnson Sweeney. 24 pieces were included in the exhibition, created between 1941 and 1946. The cover, frontispiece and three balck-an-white plates reproduce photographs by Herbert Matter. A clean, near-fine copy in wrappers with some very minute wear and pale offsetting. An attractive and finely printed catalog.