Oct 01, 2014 - Sale 2358

Sale 2358 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 4,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
CALDER, ALEXANDER. Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes. Edited and with Introduction by James Johnson Sweeney. 85 illustrations after drawings by Calder. Small folio, linen-backed pictorial yellow boards; original blue dust jacket printed in red, spine panel a bit faded, but otherwise book and jacket in unusually bright condition; Monroe Wheeler's book label on front pastedown. Ex-collection Anatole Pohorilenko, ex-dono Monroe Wheeler. New York: Curt Valentin, 1944

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a fine copy with a large, bold inscription by calder to monroe wheeler in ink, on front endpaper; "to Monroe Wheeler. Greetings, & may the Contents herein Give You Pleasure & Warmth. Sandy Calder Nov. 30 / 44." And beneath it: "and the same again from Curt Valentin." Also laid in is a Typed Letter Signed by James Johnson Sweeney, Director of The Museum of Fine Arts, to Wheeler, at his Museum of Modern Art office, thanking him for copies of Three Young Rats.

From the Estate of Anatole Pohorilenko, a close friend and companion of Wheeler and Glenway Wescott who also authored the biography of their friendship with George Platt Lynes (When We Were Three, Arena Editions, 1998). Pohorilenko was born in Lubeck, Germany to Ukrainian and German parents and lived in the Displaced Persons Camp in Burgdorf until 1947 when he relocated to Brazil before emigrating to the U.S. Settling and receiving his education in Philadelphia, he became a distinguished anthropologist and archaeologist in his own right.