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A “Calder mobile” refers to a moving artwork created by American sculptor Alexander Calder composed of delicately balanced sculptural forms suspended from the ceiling. Calder worked a number of jobs, including as a hydraulic engineer and draftsman for the New York Edison Company, before deciding to pursue an artistic career. He never abandoned his engineering background, however, applying his understanding of gears and moving parts in all his artworks, from mechanical toys like the Cirque Calder (1931) and his revered prints to his free-standing abstract sculptures, called stabiles. Find a collection of original Alexander Calder art on 1stDibs.
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Alexander Calder Mobile Georgia O’Keeffe Abiquiu 1980 Myron Wood Photograph
By Myron Wood
Located in Denver, CO
This striking black-and-white photograph by Myron Wood captures a rare and intimate intersection of two giants of modern art: a suspended mobile by Alexander Calder within the histor...
Category
1980s American Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
Vintage Poster After Alexander Calder - 1970s
By Alexander Calder
Located in Roma, IT
Calder's Mobiles is a vintage poster realized after Alexander Calder in the 1970s.
Category
1970s Contemporary More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Laurent Martin Lo, Bamboo "Kinetic" Sculpture, France, circa 2000
Located in Nice, Cote d' Azur
This intervention is the basis for the final pieces which are constructed with the organic Material, fishing lines and metal and ceramic weights. Like Calder’s mobiles, the sculpture...
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Early 2000s French Mid-Century Modern Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Materials
Bamboo
Alexander Calder Stabiles lithograph 1963 (Calder derrière le miroir)
By Alexander Calder
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Miro. Picasso. Alexander Calder Stabiles. Calder Mobiles. Calder Sculptures.
Category
1960s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alexander Calder Stabiles lithograph 1963 (Calder derrière le miroir)
By Alexander Calder
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Miro. Picasso. Alexander Calder Stabiles. Calder Mobiles. Calder Sculptures.
Category
1960s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original poster from Alexander Calder's exhibition at the Sala Gaspar in 1973
By Alexander Calder
Located in PARIS, FR
Resonating with the Futurists and Constructivists, as well as with the language of early non-objective painting, Calder's mobiles (a term coined by Marcel Duchamp in 1931 to describe...
Category
1970s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
