ALEXANDER CALDER Original 60s Color LITHOGRAPH STABILES TRIANGLES ROUGE NOIR COA

Description: Artist: ALEXANDER CALDER (American, 1898 – 1976)Title: Stacked Triangles - "STABILES TRIANGLES ROUGE y NOIR"Medium: Original Color LithographEdition: 2000 print run, not individually numberedSize: Framed to 35 x 28 inchesCOA: Certificate of Authenticity issued by Artwork Registry and is included in the saleProvenance: Hatay Stratton Fine Art, Northampton, MassachusettsAbout the Artist: Alexander "Sandy" Calder was an American sculptor and printmaker known both for his innovative mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures. Calder preferred not to analyze his work, saying, "Theories may be all very well for the artist himself, but they shouldn't be broadcast to other people." In addition to sculptures, Calder painted throughout his career, beginning in the early 1920s. He picked up his study of printmaking in 1925, and continued to produce illustrations for books and journals. His projects from this period include pen-and-ink line drawings of animals for a 1931 publication of Aesop's fables. As Calder's sculpture moved into the realm of pure abstraction in the early 1930s, so did his prints. The thin lines used to define figures in the earlier prints and drawings began delineating groups of geometric shapes, often in motion. Calder also used prints for advocacy, as in poster prints from 1967 and 1969 protesting the Vietnam War. As Calder's professional reputation expanded in the late 1940s and 1950s, so did his production of prints. Masses of lithographs based on his gouache paintings were marketed, and deluxe editions of plays, poems, and short stories illustrated with fine art prints by Calder became available. Today they are greatly admired and highly collected.

Price: 695 USD

Location: Indio, California

End Time: 2025-02-11T22:35:59.000Z

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