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Signed Alexander Calder Galerie Maeght 1968 (announcement)

1968

$2,400
£1,809.45
€2,116
CA$3,396.97
A$3,458.12
CHF 1,991.48
MX$41,673.53
NOK 23,115.48
SEK 23,322.10
DKK 15,815.55

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Alexander Calder sculpted holiday card 1968: Rare foldout holiday card designed and illustrated by Calder in 1968. This beautifully illustrated piece depicts one of the artist's stabile sculptures and features a hanging, kinetic element on the interior. Hand signed in pencil on the mid lower left. Medium: printed folding paper card with embossing and hanging element. 1968. Dimensions folded closed: 10 h × 6¼ w in (25 × 16 cm). Minor signs of handling. Very good overall vintage condition; well-preserved. Hand signed in pencil; embossed initials; from an edition of unknown; scarce. Published by Galerie Maeght Paris. Printed in France. More on Galerie Maeght: In October 1945 the French art dealer Aimé Maeght opens his art gallery at 13 Rue de Téhéran in Paris. His beginning coincides with the end of Second World War and the return of a number of exiled artists back to France. Among those represented by Maeght for many years: Pierre Alechinsky, Francis Bacon, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Eduardo Chillida, Alberto Giacometti, Vassily Kandinsky, Ellsworth Kelly, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Saul Steinberg and Antoni Tapies. _ Alexander Calder was an American artist best known for his invention of the kinetic sculptures known as mobiles. Calder also produced a variety of two-dimensional artworks including lithographs, paintings, and tapestries as seen in his Butterfly (1970). “My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses, and movement,” the artist once said. Born on August 22, 1898 in Lawnton, PA, Calder turned to art in the 1920s, studying drawing and painting under George Luks and Boardman Robinson at the Art Students League in New York. Calder moved to Paris to continue his studies in 1926, where he was introduced to the European avant-garde through performances of his Cirque Calder (1926–1931). “I was very fond of the spatial relations,” he said of his interest in the circus. “The whole thing of the—the vast space—I’ve always loved it.” With these performances, along with his wire sculptures, Calder attracted the attention of such notable figures as Marcel Duchamp, Jean Arp, and Fernand Léger. Notably, it was his friend Duchamp that coined the term mobile—a pun in French meaning both “motion” and “motive”—during a visit to Calder’s Paris studio in 1931. His earliest mobiles moved by motors, but Calder soon abandoned these mechanics and designed pieces that moved by air currents or human interaction. Over the course of seven decades, along with his mobiles, he also produced paintings, monumental outdoor sculptures, works on paper, domestic objects, and jewelry. The artist lived in both Roxbury, CT, and Saché, France, before his death on November 11, 1976 in New York, NY. Today, his works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Tate Gallery in London. Related Categories Calder prints. Calder Mid Century Modern. 1970s. Contemporary Art. Miro.
  • Creator:
    Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1968
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 10 in (25.4 cm)Width: 6.25 in (15.88 cm)
  • Medium:
    Lithograph
  • Movement & Style:
    Pop Art
  • Period:
    1960-1969
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    NEW YORK, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU354317926352

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