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Alexander CALDER & Juan Luis BUÑUEL & (Jeanne RUCAR épouse BUNUEL)

Carte postale autographe signée d'Alexander Calder et Juan Luis Buñuel adressée à Jeanne Rucar épouse Buñuel

(Saché) 22 décembre 1966, 14,7x10,4cm, une carte postale.

Handwritten signed postcard from Alexander Calder and Juan Luis Buñuel to Jeanne Buñuel née Rucar

Handwritten signed postcard from Alexander Calder and Juan Luis Buñuel to Jeanne Buñuel, written in French in black felt-tip. Saché postmark (Indre-et-Loire). Jeanne Buñuel's address in Mexico.
Card perforated with two holes at the top. Photograph of Calder's studio in Saché on the front of the card.
Provenance: Buñuel family archives.

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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