Asymetrie 1972
Alexander Calder
Limited Edition Print : Lithograph
Size : 32.09x22.83 in | 82x58 cm
Edition : Unnumbered Limited Edition
- 馃敟Limited Edition Lithograph - 13 Watchers
Year1972
Plate SignedPlate Signed
Condition Excellent
Not Framed
Purchased fromPrivate Collector 2013
Story / Additional Infocolor lithograph signed and dated in the stone -CALDER 72-limited edition of 2000
Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage
LID122965
Alexander Calder - United States
Alexander Calder was an American Blue Chip artist best known for his mobiles and wire sculptures. His biomorphic forms recall the Surrealism of Joan Mir贸, with curved lines, geometric shapes, and soft angles. 鈥淢y whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses, and movement,鈥 the artist once said. Born on August 22, 1898 in Lawnton, PA, Calder received a degree in mechanical engineering before turning to art in the 1920s, studying painting under George Luks and Boardman Robinson at the Art Students League in New York. Calder moved to Paris to continue his studies in 1926, where he was introduced to the European avant-garde through Marcel Duchamp, Jean Arp, and Fernand L茅ger. That same year, Calder embarked on arguably his most beloved piece, Cirque Calder (1931), a mechanized miniature circus that is performed before an audience. 鈥淚 was very fond of the spatial relations,鈥 he said of his interest in the circus. 鈥淭he whole thing of鈥攖he vast space鈥擨鈥檝e always loved it.鈥 Notably, it was his friend Duchamp that coined the term mobiles as a suggestion for an exhibition of Calder鈥檚 work in 1932. During the following decades, along with his mobiles he also produced paintings and non-kinetic works. The artist lived in both Roxbury, CT, and France before his death on November 11, 1976 in New York, NY. Today, his works are held in the collections The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Tate Gallery in London. Listings wanted.