Louis Carré took over his father’s business as an antiques dealer in 1923 in Rennes, then moved to Paris. He specialised in ethnography and ‘primitive’ art in the 1930s and later in contemporary art. Roland Balaÿ (from the M. Knoedler & Co. gallery) and Carré founded an art gallery in Paris in 1937. Carré took over and directed it on his own from 1941.
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