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Rare 1977 ALEXANDER CALDER Art Expo Pinback
Rare 1977 ALEXANDER CALDER Art Expo Pinback
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This is a rare vintage 1977 Alexander Calder pinback button.

Pin from 'Calder's Universe': Art Exhibition, Walker Art Center, 5 June - 14 August 1977. Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Alexander Calder (1898 -1976) was an American sculptor known as the originator of the mobile, a type of kinetic sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended components which move in response to motor power or air currents.

In 1926, Calder moved to Paris, visited the Academie de la Grande Chaumiereand he established a studio at 22 rue Daguerre in the Montparnasse Quarter. In June 1929, while traveling by boat from Paris to New York, Calder met his future wife, Louisa James (1905-1996), grandniece of author Henry James and philosopher William James. They married in 1931. While in Paris, Calder met and became friends with a number of avant-garde artists, including Joan Miro, Jean Arp, and Marcel Duchamp. Calder and Louisa returned to America in 1933 to settle in a farmhouse they purchased in Roxbury, Connecticut, where they raised a family (first daughter, Sandra born 1935, second daughter, Mary, in 1939). In 1955 Alexander and Louisa Calder traveled around in India for three months, where Calder produced nine sculptures as well as some jewelry.

In 1962, Calder settled into his new workshop Carroi, which was of a futuristic design and overlooked the valley of the Lower Chevriere to Sache in Indre-et-Loire (France). He did not hesitate to offer his gouaches and small mobiles to his friends in the country. He even donated to the town a stabile tronant (enthroned stabile), which since 1974 has been situated front of the church: an anti-sculpture free from gravity.Throughout his artistic career, Calder named many of his works in French, regardless of where they were destined for eventual display.In 1966, Calder published his Autobiography with Pictures with the help of his son-in-law, Jean Davidson.

Calder died unexpectedly on November 11, 1976, shortly after opening a major retrospective show at the Whitney Museum in New York.

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Rare 1977 ALEXANDER CALDER Art Expo Pinback

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