[Rarebooks] FS: Nall, 1978 Catalog +Handwritten Letter to Komei Wachi Gallery K

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

Exhibition Catalogs for Nall, with a Handwritten Letter.

This lot consists of a copy of the exhibition catalog "Nall, Exposition 
Dessins - Gravures", which accompanied an exhibition at the Galerie Isy 
Brachot in Brussels in 1978, a folding card invitation to the 
exhibition, and a folded exhibition card for an exhibition of his works 
at the Galerie Krivy, in Nice, in 1984.

With a handwritten letter from Nall dated January 16, 1984, in Nice, to 
Gallery K owner Komei Wachi, which begins "Dear Komei", and discussing 
upcoming and past shows, his health, and how well his work is selling.

"Nall" (Fred Nall Hollis) was born in Troy, Alabama, in 1948. He 
attended the University of Alabama and studied at the École des 
Beaux-Arts in Paris. While in paris he became a protege of Salvador 
Dalí. He opened a studio in Vence, and created the NALL (Nature Art & 
Life League) Art Association, which "offers artistic training for 
college students and provides a cultural life through exhibitions and 
conferences". In addition to painting and drawing, Nall has worked in 
mosaics, sculpture, engravings, porcelain, and textiles.

The Washington Times reported on January 20, 2006- "The deaths of 
Gallery K co-owners H. Marc Moyens and Komei Wachi just 2-1/2 years ago 
ended the District’s most exciting art era. Theirs is a unique story. 
French-born art aficionado Marc Moyens came here in 1945 to work as a 
multilingual interpreter, landed a job at the World Bank, collected 
intensively and founded Gallery Marc in 1969. It was part of the city’s 
first “gallery rows” — this one on the “P Street strip” in Northwest — 
which included the eccentric Henrietta Ehrsam’s Henri and Cuban-born 
Ramon Osuna’s Pyramid galleries. Described by one writer as “creepy and 
menacing,” the Frenchman’s “H. Marc Moyens Collection” played to mixed 
reviews at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1969. When Mr. Wachi, a 
Japanese-born mathematician, joined the gallery in 1975, the two formed 
an unbeatable team that bucked art trends — such as that of the 
then-fashionable Washington Color School — with Hieronymus Bosch-like 
surreal evocations. At first glance, Mr. Moyens and Mr. Wachi couldn’t 
have been more different. The rotund, suave Frenchman liked to hold 
forth at gallery openings, but the soft-spoken, diminutive Mr. Wachi, 16 
years Mr. Moyens’ junior, sat behind the gallery desk offering Japanese 
tea and encouraging artists. They died within six weeks of each other, 
Mr. Moyens of an apparent heart attack at 83 in April 2003 and Mr. 
Wachi, 67, of pancreatic cancer in May. These two expatriates, both 
impassioned art lovers, changed the art history of the nation’s 
capital."

Card covers. 6"x9.5", 11 pages, black & white illustrations, plus 
brochure, invitation card, and letter. Minor soil, light wear. $125-

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