1040704

Alexander Calder, Lithograph, San Lazarro et #1040704

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Alexander Calder, Lithograph, San Lazarro et #1040704
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Artist: Alexander Calder

Title: San Lazarro et Ses Amis

Year: 1975

Medium: Lithograph, signed and dated in the plate

Edition: 400/575

Paper Size: 14" X 10"


Printed by l'imprimerie Arte in Paris, France.
Published by XX Siecle, Paris

ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)





Alexander Calder, internationally famous by his mid-30s, is renowned for developing a new idiom in modern art-the mobile.

His works in this mode, from miniature to monumental, are called mobiles (suspended moving sculptures), standing mobiles (anchored moving sculptures) and stabiles (stationary constructions). Calder's abstract works are characteristically direct, spare, buoyant, colorful and finely crafted. He made ingenious, frequently witty, use of natural and manmade materials, including wire, sheetmetal, wood and bronze.

Calder was born in 1898 in Philadelphia, the son of Alexander Stirling Calder and grandson of Alexander Milne Calder, both well-known sculptors. After obtaining his mechanical engineering degree from the Stevens Institute of Technology, Calder worked at various jobs before enrolling at the Art Students League in New York City in 1923. During his student years, he did line drawings for the National Police Gazette.
In 1925, Calder published his first book, Animal Sketches, illustrated in brush and ink. He produced oil paintings of city scenes, in a loose and easy style. Early in 1926, he began to carve primitivist figures in tropical woods, which remained ...
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<tr><td>Condition:good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:c. 1970</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:14</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:10</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Alexander Calder, Lithograph, San Lazarro et</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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