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Four Friends in Close-Up

Miró, Calder, Giacometti, Braque

10 Oct 2008
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Four great, highly dissimilar artists exhibited at the Galerie Maeght in Paris. Rosamond Bernier, creator of the art review L’OEIL, knew them well. She tells us about their surroundings and what they were like as people.

Reynolds Room, 6.30-7.30pm

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Joan Miró, The Birth of Day 1 (Naissance du jour 1), 1964. Oil on canvas, 146 x 113.5 cm. Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, Saint-Paul. Photo © Galerie Maeght.
© Succession Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2008.

 

The Antioch Chalice, Byzantine, from Syria, possibly Kaper Koraon or Antioch, first half of the sixth century. Silver cup set in footed silver-gilt shell, Height 19. 7 cm. Lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Cloisters Collection, 1950 (50.4). Photo © The Metropolitan Museum of Art