The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Nice has chosen to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Maeght Foundation by paying tribute to Alexander Calder.
Until September 7th, the contemporary gallery of the museum will present a collection from the Maeght Foundation, bringing together mobiles, stabiles, sculptures, engravings, and original lithographs, centered around the masterpiece of MAMAC, the Stabile-Mobile (1970).
Alexander Calder recounts in his Autobiography his meeting with Aimé Maeght: “Christian Zervos, who published Cahiers d’Art, had very kindly put me in touch with Aimé Maeght, who had a very good gallery in the 8th arrondissement. I brought many Roxbury mobiles to Maeght and had an exhibition with him in June 1950, following a Miró exhibition. This marked the beginning of a long association with Aimé.”
Alexander Calder created for the gardens of the Maeght Foundation an immense stabile, Les Renforts, and invested a lot for his first major retrospective in 1969.
Fêtes, a bibliophile book published by Maeght Editeur and co-signed by Calder and Prévert, testifies to the friendship that united these two great artists.
