Lithograph in colors on Rives wove paper (watermark)
France, 1967
Alexander Calder (1898-1976) – US-American sculptor and graphic artist of Modernism and kinetic art
Signed and dated lower right in green pen ‘Calder 70’
Monogrammed and dated lower right on the stone ‘CA 67’
Numbered lower left in pencil ‘S.C. XI’
Image dimensions: 60.5 x 44 cm
Good condition
Geometric shapes in luminous colors – a typical subject matter of the artist; Alexander Calder’s lithographs in colors fetch up to €10,000 at international auctions
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This is the lithograph in colors ‘Red, blue and yellow spheres’ by Alexander Calder from 1967. Geometric shapes of luminous colors outlined by fine black lines are typical features of the comprehensive printed body of work of the artist. Since Calder moved to Paris in 1926, he increasingly engaged in printing techniques.

The lithograph is signed and dated lower right in green pen ‘Calder 70’, as well as monogrammed and dated lower right on the stone ‘CA 67’. It is numbered lower left in pencil ‘S.C. XI’. The sheet shows slight handling creases and foxing. On the right is a folding line and verso remains of a former mount with adhesive stripes. The image measures 60.5 x 44 cm and the dimension of the sheet are 64.8 x 50 cm.



Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

Alexander Calder attended the Art Students League in New York from 1923 until 1926. He began his artistic career with illustrating comic papers. During his first Parisian stay in 1926/27, where he attended drawing classes at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, he moved over to creating wire sculptures. He created small sculptures of wood and playful constructions of different materials. He was a strict constructivist for a period of time. Next to his ‘stables’ he created since around 1930 his first ‘mobiles’, a type of kinetic sculpture. The mobiles were moveable constructions of wire and metal pieces, which established a new genre of art and which had great influence on the arts and crafts. Works by Calder are located in numerous museums worldwide. In 1937, ‘Mercury Fountain’ was exhibited at the world fair in Paris, 1958 his ‘Spirale’ was installed at the UNESCO building in Paris. (tm)

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