Jersey city, NJ
Details
- Dimensions
- 19.25ʺW × 0.1ʺD × 27ʺH
- Styles
- Abstract
- Minimalism
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Artist
- Alexander Calder
- Period
- 1970s
- Country of Origin
- France
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Lithograph
- Condition
- Mint Condition, No Imperfections
- Color
- Red
- Condition Notes
- Mint condition new old stock. Photographs are detailed and taken under controlled lighting; post-production is performed with calibrated monitors. Thus, … moreMint condition new old stock. Photographs are detailed and taken under controlled lighting; post-production is performed with calibrated monitors. Thus, our photographs accurately capture the work's condition and colors. However, monitors vary and can affect the way art appears online. Contact us for any concerns. less
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We were fortunate to acquire a number of new old stock French lithograph art posters. These posters are not reproductions …
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We were fortunate to acquire a number of new old stock French lithograph art posters. These posters are not reproductions or offset lithographs. They are original first edition, true lithograph posters, and very collectible works of art. This poster was one of the acquisitions, printed in 1975 for an exhibition of Alexander Calder at Galerie Maeght in Paris. Printed by ARTE. Poster size: 27 x 19 1/4 inches. Mint condition new old stock.
Alexander Calder was a sculptor, renowned for his stabiles and mobiles he began creating in the 1930s. Calder’s vision was broad and groundbreaking, and his output was enormous, ranging from small figurines to large, architecturally related sculptures. He was born in Philadelphia in 1898, the son of an academic sculptor. Although trained as a mechanical engineer, he turned to art, and attended the Art Students League in New York City, where he established himself as an illustrator and caricaturist. While in Paris in 1926, he took up sculpture. After working on wood pieces, he began to make circus figures composed of twisted wire, wheels, string, and cloth. His miniature circus captured the attention of the avant-garde in Paris. Inspired by the work of Joan Miró, Jean Arp, Fernand Léger, and Piet Mondrian, he created his first abstract stabiles in 1930. From these early works and his interest in movement, Calder developed hand-cranked, motorized, and then wind-powered constructions that were dubbed “mobiles” by the French artist Marcel Duchamp. These sculptures, usually painted in bold basic colors, turn, bob, and rotate, in a constantly changing relationship to the space around them. Many of his sculptures were transformed into lithographs that remain quite popular. less
Jersey city, NJ
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