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Alexander CALDER & (Juan Luis BUÑUEL)

Carte postale autographe signée d'Alexander Calder à Juan Luis Buñuel

(Saché) 29 décembre 1956, 14,7x10,4cm, une carte postale.

Handwritten signed postcard from Alexander Calder to Juan Luis Buñuel

Handwritten signed postcard from Alexander Calder to Juan Luis Buñuel, written in English in ballpoint pen and blue felt-tip. Saché postmark (Indre-et-Loire). Paris address of Juan Luis Buñuel.
Card perforated with two holes at the top. Photograph of one of Calder's stabiles on the front.
Provenance: Buñuel family archives.
In 1939, Luis Buñuel, who had just received an offer to work in Hollywood, decided, with his wife and child, to leave the chaotic situation in Europe to go and live the American Dream. The penniless Buñuels initially spent a few precarious months living in New York. Luis Buñuel found himself forced to ask Dali—his longstanding friend in exile, along with Gala, during these years—to lend him some money.
His request was refused in no uncertain terms, putting an end to the two men's friendship. Thus it was Calder, whom Luis had perhaps already met in Paris in the 1920s, who put the whole family up in his Upper Side apartment. Juan Luis Buñuel, the artist's godson, sensed that his interest in sculpture began in this same period: “When Dali told my father he would not lend him any money, he contacted him [Calder]. He offered his house to us and we lived with his family for a time. I can only vaguely remember it, but it was then that I started to become interested in sculpture and he encouraged me” (Anton Casto, Juan Luis una entrevista).
Despite the geographical distance that would come to separate them, Alexander Calder would remain a friend of the Buñuel family. The relationship between the artist and the film-maker is, however, almost entirely absent from the biographies, and this correspondence is a rare testimony to the profound connection between the sculptor and the Buñuel family.

 

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