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Lot Essay
Dès le jour du cocktail, le vendredi 7 octobre 1955, donné pour l'ouverture de la galerie Stadler, rue de Seine à Paris, les sculptures en fer soudé de l'artiste américaine Claire Falkenstein sont présentées parmi les oeuvres des douze artistes de l'exposition de groupe. Ce jour là, le Tout-Paris - composé des "comtesses et intellectuels authentiques", dira plus tard Rodolphe Stadler, le directeur tmraire et visionnaire de la nouvelle galerie - est rassemblé par Michel Tapié de Céleyran, le conseiller artistique de la galerie. Les invités peuvent alors admirer la rampe originale du petit escalier de la galerie, commandée par Rodolphe Stadler à Claire Falkenstein, devenue l'emblème de la galerie.
Arrivée des États-Unis, Claire Falkenstein, qui s'est installée dans son atelier parisien depuis 1950, rencontre Michel Tapié le 10 juin 1952. À cette poque, conseiller artistique du Studio Facchetti, Michel Tapié, d'une part, l'intègre dans l'exposition "Un Art Autre" organisé en décembre 1952 et lui fera rencontrer Rodolphe Stadler. Le jeune galeriste lui organisera pas moins de quatre expositions personnelles et l'inclura dans quatre expositions de groupe. Les deux oeuvres présentées ici proviennent de la collection privée de Rodolphe Stadler.
Juliette Evezard
At the reception held on Friday 7 October 1955 for the opening of the Galerie Stadler on the Rue de Seine in Paris, welded iron sculptures by American artist Claire Falkenstein were displayed among works by 12 artists in the group exhibition. The Parisian elite - comprising "countesses and genuine intellectuals", as Rodolphe Stadler, the new gallerys bold and visionary director, would later recall - were assembled for the occasion by Michel Tapié de Céleyran, the gallery's artistic director. Guests were able to admire the unusual handrail of the gallery's small staircase, commissioned by Rodolphe Stadler from Claire Falkenstein, which was to become the gallery's hallmark.
Claire Falkenstein, having moved from America to set up her studio in Paris in 1950, met Michel Tapié on 10 June 1952. In his role as artistic director of the Studio Facchetti, Michel Tapié included her in the Un Art Autre exhibition held in December 1952 and introduced her to Rodolphe Stadler. The young gallery owner organised no fewer than four personal exhibitions for her, as well as including her in four group exhibitions. The two works presented here come from Rodolphe Stadler's private collection.
Juliette Evezard
Arrivée des États-Unis, Claire Falkenstein, qui s'est installée dans son atelier parisien depuis 1950, rencontre Michel Tapié le 10 juin 1952. À cette poque, conseiller artistique du Studio Facchetti, Michel Tapié, d'une part, l'intègre dans l'exposition "Un Art Autre" organisé en décembre 1952 et lui fera rencontrer Rodolphe Stadler. Le jeune galeriste lui organisera pas moins de quatre expositions personnelles et l'inclura dans quatre expositions de groupe. Les deux oeuvres présentées ici proviennent de la collection privée de Rodolphe Stadler.
Juliette Evezard
At the reception held on Friday 7 October 1955 for the opening of the Galerie Stadler on the Rue de Seine in Paris, welded iron sculptures by American artist Claire Falkenstein were displayed among works by 12 artists in the group exhibition. The Parisian elite - comprising "countesses and genuine intellectuals", as Rodolphe Stadler, the new gallerys bold and visionary director, would later recall - were assembled for the occasion by Michel Tapié de Céleyran, the gallery's artistic director. Guests were able to admire the unusual handrail of the gallery's small staircase, commissioned by Rodolphe Stadler from Claire Falkenstein, which was to become the gallery's hallmark.
Claire Falkenstein, having moved from America to set up her studio in Paris in 1950, met Michel Tapié on 10 June 1952. In his role as artistic director of the Studio Facchetti, Michel Tapié included her in the Un Art Autre exhibition held in December 1952 and introduced her to Rodolphe Stadler. The young gallery owner organised no fewer than four personal exhibitions for her, as well as including her in four group exhibitions. The two works presented here come from Rodolphe Stadler's private collection.
Juliette Evezard