Sold|$360
Arrows (Red, Blue and Black Balloons) - Lithograph poster, Maeght 1968
By (after) Alexander Calder
Located in Paris, IDF
Alexander CALDER (after) Arrows Lithograph poster Made for the exhibition of Alexander Calder at
Lithograph
Sold|$360
Black tree with red and blue fruits - Lithograph poster - Maeght 1971
By (after) Alexander Calder
Located in Paris, IDF
Alexander CALDER (after) Black tree with red and blue fruits, 1971-72 Lithograph poster Made for
Lithograph
Sold|$360
Black tree with red and blue fruits - Lithograph poster - Maeght 1971
By (after) Alexander Calder
Located in Paris, IDF
Alexander CALDER (after) Black tree with red and blue fruits, 1971-72 Lithograph poster Made for
Lithograph
Le Girafe en Feu, Salvador Dali & Beastie, Alexander Calder
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Southampton, NY
Lawrence (from Carpentier). Excellent Condition; unframed. ### ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976) Credited
Lithograph
Derriere le Miroir #173 (Plate 2)
By Alexander Calder
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Alexander Calder Medium: Original lithograph Title: Derriere le Miroir #173 (Plate 2
Lithograph
Plate 1, from Derriere Le Miroir #173
By Alexander Calder
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Alexander Calder Medium: Original lithograph Title: Plate 1, from Derriere le Miroir #173
Lithograph
Sold|$5,500
For Young Artists
By Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original lithograph by Alexander Calder (American 1898 - 1976). The lithograph is hand-signed
Lithograph
Sold|$800
Red Sun
By Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original lithograph by Alexander Calder with signature and date in the plate. In a fine black
Lithograph
Sold|$1,400
Convection
By Alexander Calder
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Alexander Calder Title: "Convection" from The Flying Colors Collection, 1975 for Braniff
Lithograph
Sold|$1,050
Beastie
By Alexander Calder
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Alexander Calder Title: "Beastie" from The Flying Colors Collection, 1975 for
Lithograph
Sold|$650
Autumn
By Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Calder, American (1898 - 1976) Title: Autumn Year: 1969 Medium: Lithograph
Lithograph
Ballons Dégoulinés (Bulles D'air)
By Alexander Calder
Located in Miami, FL
Alexander Calder, Ballons Dégoulinés (Bulles D'air), 1969 Signed and numbered in pencil, from an
Lithograph
Sold|$650
Balloons
By Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Calder, American (1898 - 1976) Title: Balloons Year: 1968 Medium: Lithograph
Lithograph
Sold|$950
The Onion
By Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Calder, American (1898 - 1976) Title: The Onion from Derriere Le Miroir Year
Lithograph
Sold|$650
Balloons
By Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Calder, American (1898 - 1976) Title: Balloons Year: 1968 Medium: Lithograph
Lithograph
Sold|$650
Balloons
By Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Calder, American (1898 - 1976) Title: Balloons Year: 1968 Medium: Lithograph
Lithograph
Sold|$650
Autumn
By Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Calder, American (1898 - 1976) Title: Autumn Year: 1969 Medium: Lithograph
Lithograph
Sold|$300
Waves
By Alexander Calder
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Alexander Calder Medium: Original lithograph Title: Waves Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir
Lithograph
Derriere Le Miroir #156
By Alexander Calder
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Alexander Calder Medium: Original lithograph Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir #156 Year: 1966
Lithograph
Sold|$125
Spirales
By Alexander Calder
Located in Brooklyn, NY
First release lithograph titled Spirales by Alexander Calder, plate signed, not numbered.
Lithograph
La Lune et La Montagne Jaune
By Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Calder, American (1898 - 1976) Title: La Lune et La Montagne Jaune from Derrier
Lithograph
Plate 1, from Derriere Le Miroir #156
By Alexander Calder
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Alexander Calder Medium: Original lithograph Title: Plate 1 Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir
Lithograph
Sold|$750
Balloons
By Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Calder, American (1898 - 1976) Title: Balloons Year: 1968 Medium: Lithograph
Lithograph
Sold|$650
Balloons
By Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Calder, American (1898 - 1976) Title: Balloons Year: 1968 Medium: Lithograph
Lithograph
Derriere le Miroir #173
By Alexander Calder
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Alexander Calder Medium: Original lithograph Title: Derriere le Miroir #173 Portfolio
Lithograph
Sold|$395
Stabiles V
By Alexander Calder
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Alexander Calder Medium: Original lithograph Title: Stabiles V Portfolio: Derriere le
Lithograph
Plate 2, from Derriere Le Miroir #156
By Alexander Calder
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Alexander Calder Medium: Original lithograph Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir #156 Year: 1966
Lithograph
Sold|$650
Balloons
By Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Calder (after), American (1898 - 1976) Title: Balloons Year: 1968 Medium
Lithograph
Sold|$650
Balloons
By Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Calder (after), American (1898 - 1976) Title: Balloons Year: 1968 Medium
Lithograph
Sold|$650
Balloons
By Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Calder (after), American (1898 - 1976) Title: Balloons Year: 1968 Medium
Lithograph
Sold|$650
Balloons
By Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Calder (after), American (1898 - 1976) Title: Balloons Year: 1968 Medium
Lithograph
Sold|$650
Balloons
By Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Calder (after), American (1898 - 1976) Title: Balloons Year: 1968 Medium
Lithograph
Sold|$650
Balloons
By Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Calder (after), American (1898 - 1976) Title: Balloons Year: 1968 Medium
Lithograph
Sold|$650
Balloons
By Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Calder (after), American (1898 - 1976) Title: Balloons Year: 1968 Medium
Lithograph
Sold|$650
Autumn
By Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Calder (after), American (1898 - 1976) Title: Autumn Year: 1969 Medium
Lithograph
Derriere le Miroir #173 (Plate 2)
By Alexander Calder
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Alexander Calder Medium: Original lithograph Title: Derriere le Miroir #173 (Plate 2
Lithograph
Derriere le Miroir #221
By Alexander Calder
Located in Washington, DC
Alexander Calder Derriere le Miroir #221 Artist: Alexander Calder Medium: Original lithograph Title
Lithograph
Cover of Derriere le Miroir #141 (Stabiles)
By Alexander Calder
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Alexander Calder Medium: Original lithograph Title: Cover (Derriere le Miroir #141
Lithograph
Cover Derriere le Miroir #201
By Alexander Calder
Located in Washington, DC
Alexander Calder Cover (Derriere le Miroir #201) Artist: Alexander Calder Medium: Original
Lithograph
Plate 1, from Derriere Le Miroir #173
By Alexander Calder
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Alexander Calder Medium: Original lithograph Title: Plate 1, from Derriere le Miroir #173
Lithograph
Derriere le Miroir #173 (Plate 3)
By Alexander Calder
Located in Washington, DC
Alexander Calder Derriere le Miroir #173 (Plate 3) Artist: Alexander Calder Medium: Original
Lithograph
Derriere le Miroir #173 (Plate 6)
By Alexander Calder
Located in Washington, DC
Alexander Calder Derriere le Miroir #173 (Plate 6) Artist: Alexander Calder Medium: Original
Lithograph
Sold|$1,100
Beastie
By Alexander Calder
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Alexander Calder Title: "Beastie" from The Flying Colors Collection, 1975 for Braniff
Lithograph
Sold|$900
Convection
By Alexander Calder
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Alexander Calder Title: "Convection" from The Flying Colors Collection, 1975 for Braniff
Lithograph
Circles and Waves
By Alexander Calder
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Alexander Calder Title: Circles and Waves Medium: Color Lithograph Year: 1970 Dimensions
Lithograph
Sold|$1,400
Beastie
By Alexander Calder
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Alexander Calder Title: "Beastie" from The Flying Colors Collection, 1975 for Braniff
Lithograph
Sold|$1,050
Skybird
By Alexander Calder
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Alexander Calder Title: "Skybird" from The Flying Colors Collection, 1975 for
Lithograph
Sold|$7,500
Stone Age
By Alexander Calder
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Alexander Calder Title: Stone Age Date: 1969 Lithograph in colors, on wove paper Dimensions
Lithograph
Derriere le Miroir #173
By Alexander Calder
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Alexander Calder Title: Derriere le Miroir #173 Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir #73 Medium
Lithograph
Derriere le Miroir #173
By Alexander Calder
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Alexander Calder Title: Derriere le Miroir #173 Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir #73 Medium
Lithograph
Sold|$1,050
Convection
By Alexander Calder
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Alexander Calder Title: "Convection" from The Flying Colors Collection, 1975 for
Lithograph
Sold|$1,050
Friendship Rings
By Alexander Calder
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Alexander Calder Title: "Friendship Rings" from The Flying Colors Collection
Lithograph
Sold|$4,850
Black Pyramids
By Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Calder, American (1898 - 1976) Title: Black Pyramids Year: 1970 Medium
Lithograph
Sold|$1,050
Skybird
By Alexander Calder
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Alexander Calder Title: "Skybird" from The Flying Colors Collection, 1975 for
Lithograph
Derrier from Derriere Le Miroir
By Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Calder, American (1898 - 1976) Title: Derrier from Derriere Le Miroir Year: 1968
Lithograph
Damier from Derriere le Miroir
By Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Calder, American (1898 - 1976) Title: Damier from Derriere Le Miroir Year: 1966
Lithograph
Les Gueules Degoulinantes
By Alexander Calder
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Alexander Calder, American (1898 - 1976) Title: Les Gueules Degoulinantes Year: 1966
Lithograph
The American sculptor Alexander Calder is known as the father of the mobile, a moving artwork composed of delicately balanced sculptural forms suspended from the ceiling.
Because Calder's parents, both artists themselves, did not want him to suffer the hardships of trying to make a living in art, they encouraged the young Calder to study mechanical engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology, in Hoboken, New Jersey. He 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.
In 1926, Calder moved to Paris and established a studio in the Montparnasse quarter. He began creating the many parts of his famous miniature circus from found materials, such as wire, string, cloth, rubber and cork. Designed to be transportable, Cirque grew to fill five suitcases over the years. Always interested in putting forms in motion, Calder also pioneered a new art form called wire sculptures, which he described as “drawings in space.” Like his famous mobiles, the wire sculptures were suspended so that they turned with any movement of the air, presenting different forms when viewed from different angles.
In the 1950s, Calder returned to his roots in mechanical engineering, creating monumental abstract sculptures that verged on the architectural. He worked from loose gestural drawings like this preparatory sketch for his Man Stabile, from 1966. Throughout his career, he also worked as a set designer for the theater, as well as an illustrator and printmaker, producing vibrant, whimsical drawings for books and journals.
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Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.
Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.
Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.
Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.
Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.
“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.
Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.
For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)
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