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Calder Circus, Joan Mir, Marcel Duchamp, Low Bed, Alexander Calder, Moving To Paris, Art Exhibitions, Architectural Sketch, Kinetic Sculpture

After moving to Paris in 1926, Alexander Calder began to fabricate dozens of tiny figures and props for what would become his most beloved work—titled in French Cirque Calder, and in English Calder’s Circus. Making use of simple, available materials such as wire, wood, metal, cloth, cork, fabric, and string, he constructed ingeniously articulated animals, clowns, and acrobats. In total, the circus consists of an elaborate troupe of over seventy miniature figures and animals, nearly 100…

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Calder Circus, Circus Signs, Drawings For Him, George Segal, America Sign, Summer Classes, Toulouse Lautrec, Alexander Calder, America Art

“I was very fond of the spatial relations. I love the space of the circus. I made some drawings of nothing but the tent. The whole thing of the-- the vast space-- I’ve always loved it...” -Calder, responding to the question of what started him drawing the circus SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, NUMBER 49 OF ONLY 100 COPIES SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY CALDER. Complete with 16 large offset lithographs of Calder’s drawings for his famous Circus.

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Alexander Calder. Calder's Circus, Whitney Museum of American Art April 20-July 11, 1972. 1972 Gcse Textiles, Public Sculpture, Puppet Theater, Alexander Calder, 3d Pen, Whitney Museum, Wire Sculpture, Stone Collection, April 20

Alexander Calder. Calder's Circus, Whitney Museum of American Art April 20-July 11, 1972. 1972. Lithograph. 36 x 27 3/8" (91.4 x 69.6 cm). Peter Stone Collection of Posters by Artists. 432.1976. © 2024 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Architecture & Design

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