Alexander Calder presented some 20 pieces of abstract sculpture that would turn out to be a game changer—for Calder, for the Parisian avant-garde, and for the art of sculpture in the 20th century.

His grandfather Alexander Milne Calder sculpted the ... after the Motomar left New York Harbor in March 1930, Calder became an abstract artist and a married man”—and he can offer a solid ...

Alexander Calder’s development of his iconic mobiles begins with ... This visit makes Calder realize that abstract art can become something physical and three-dimensional: an all-encompassing ...

American artist Alexander Calder made a profound impact on modern ... and it highlights over 30 significant abstract pieces the artist's collection, both mobiles and sculptures.

Alexander Calder may be best known to the general ... mobiles and other delicate pieces that look like geometric abstract paintings brought to full 3-D life — and some of those are on display ...

Alexander Calder’s iconic kinetic mobiles originated after a visit ... Inspired, Calder left the studio and within a year had done what Mondrian declined to: made abstract art move. So we were tickled ...

Alexander Calder (1898-1976 ... This US-born artist fused artistic sensibility with his engineering training to invent the kinetic abstract mobile: the kind of moving sculpture with which he ...

A Mark Rothko abstract painting sold for $11 million at ... including sculptor Alexander Calder. Rothko's 1953 work, "No. 2 (Blue, Red and Green)," was the top lot of a sale that saw bidders ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

Calder Gardens, scheduled to open in 2024, will highlight the art and ideas of Alexander Calder, an abstract sculptor and painter and a native Philadelphian. The 1.8-acre site will feature both ...

An Alexander Calder mobile twirls lightly in the soft ... It’s surely beautiful, but it speaks the common language of abstract painting. In ceramic, Takaezu spoke fully and uniquely a language ...

the 1.8-arce sanctuary will highlight the art and ideas of Alexander Calder, an abstract sculptor, painter, and Philadelphia native. Calder was born in Philadelphia in 1898 to a sculptor father ...