BIB_ID
446678
Accession number
MA 4733.70:1
Creator
Spiller, Jürg, sender.
Display Date
Basel, Switzerland, 1948 December 7
Credit line
Gift of Herbert Cahoon, 1993.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 29.6 x 21 cm
Notes
With red, orange, yellow, green, and blue markings on the text.
Stationary embossed in blind with artists' name in vertical orientation.
Sketch depicting a floorplan drawn in black ink on verso.
Note ("Sidney Janis / Gallery / 15 East 57th") written in unknown hand in black ink next to the question, "Would you be so kind as to send me the address of the / Janis Gal".
Typed note in the left margin: "Do you know that Jean Genet is in gale [jail]? / Gide and Cocteau published an article in a / Paris new-paper asking the president of the / republic to liberate him."
Stationary embossed in blind with artists' name in vertical orientation.
Sketch depicting a floorplan drawn in black ink on verso.
Note ("Sidney Janis / Gallery / 15 East 57th") written in unknown hand in black ink next to the question, "Would you be so kind as to send me the address of the / Janis Gal".
Typed note in the left margin: "Do you know that Jean Genet is in gale [jail]? / Gide and Cocteau published an article in a / Paris new-paper asking the president of the / republic to liberate him."
Provenance
Herbert Cahoon.
Summary
Updating Trotter on his upcoming exhibition in Milan with fellow Swiss artist Walter Bodmer; sharing that the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Detroit asked him for "a large serie[s] of photographs", which "Arp" [German-French artist Jean Arp] recommended that he later send to the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York; remarking upon a shared acquaintance, "Quentin", who he believes Trotter met in Paris; inquiring as to whether or not the Tiger's Eye is still accepting photograph submissions; suggesting that Trotter make plans to meet "Kiesler" [Austrian-American architect and artist Frederick John Kiesler], saying, "he is possibly one of the most remarquable men to speak with as poet and sculpture".
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