Some of the best-known photographs of Alexander Calder, taken in 1941 by his friend Herbert Matter, show Calder in the high-windowed studio he fashioned from an old icehouse in Roxbury, Conn., surrounded by such an explosion of sculpture and sheet-metal scraps that it looks as if a small airplane had just crashed into the site.
The show, at 32 East 57th Street, will not only reunite works from 1941 but will also bring many back to almost the same place where they were first (and, in some cases, last) shown, directly across the street in the Fuller Building, where Pierre Matisse — the legendary dealer and son of Henri — operated his gallery and represented Calder for years.
Works on paper will also be on view at Pace Prints at 32 East 57th Street.
