Alexander Calder

Plate from Le Surréalisme en 1947

1947

Lithograph from an illustrated book with eighteen lithographs, four etchings (two with aquatint), two woodcuts, one photogravure, and one ready-made object

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Author edited byAndré Breton, texts byVarious Authors
Medium Lithograph from an illustrated book with eighteen lithographs, four etchings (two with aquatint), two woodcuts, one photogravure, and one ready-made object
Dimensions composition (irreg.): 9 1/8 x 8" (23.2 x 20.3 cm); page: 9 7/16 x 8" (24 x 20.3 cm)
Publisher Pierre à Feu (Maeght Éditeur), Paris
Printer Mourlot, Paris
Edition 950
Credit Henry Church Fund
Object number 343.1947.4
Illustrated book Le Surréalisme en 1947
Department Drawings and Prints

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Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder

American, 1898–1976 294 works online

Alexander Calder conceived of sculpture as an experiment in space and motion. Ranging from delicate, intimate, figurative objects in wood and wire, to hanging sculptures that move, to monumentally scaled abstract works in steel and aluminum, Calder’s art suggests the elemental systems that animate life itself.

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