Friday, 27 March 2026

Alexander Calder - part 9

This is part 9 of a 16-part series on the works of Alexander Calder. For a biography of Calder see part 1, and for earlier works, see parts 1 - 8 also. 

c1946 Untitled
sheet metal and paint 33 x 27.9 x 20.3 cm
Private Collection

1946 Yellow Plane
sheet metal, wire, and paint 92.7 x 38.7 x 125 cm
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

1946 Untitled
oil on canvas 76.2 x 106.6 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1947 Lines of Flow
oil on canvas 76.2 x 101.6 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1947 Laocoön
sheet metal, wire, string, and paint 203.2 x 304.8 x 71.1 cm
The Broad, Los Angeles, CA

1947 Gamma
sheet metal, wire, and paint 147.3 x 213.3 x 91.4 cm
Seattle Art Museum

1947 Fuse
oil on canvas 60.9 x 83.5 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1947 Bougainvillier
sheet metal, wire, rod, lead, and paint 198.1 x 208.2 x 137.1 cm
Seattle Art Museum

1947 Bathers
oil on canvas 106.6 x 63.5 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1947 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
sheet metal and paint 88.9 x 69 x 27.9 cm
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1947 Polygones noirs (Black Polygons)
sheet metal, wire, and paint 60 x 320 x 120 cm
Private Collection

1947 Moths 2
sheet metal, rod, wire, and paint 120.6 x 198.1 x 114.3 cm
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

1947 Monocles
heet metal and paint 89.5 x 80.6 x 50.8 cm
Sheet metal and paint

1947 Little Blue Under Red
sheet metal, wire, and paint 147.3 x 208.2 cm
Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum

1947 Sword-Plant
sheet metal, wire, and paint 97.7 x 78.7 x 72.3 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1947 Somnambulist
oil on canvas 74.6 x 49.3 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1947 Seven Black, Red and Blue
oil on canvas 122.2 x 153 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1947 Root
sheet metal, wire, and paint 121.9 x 66 x 83.8 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1947 Red is Dominant
sheet metal, wire, and paint 140.9 x 111.7 x 83.8 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1947 Red Disc
sheet  metal, rod, wire, and paint 205.7 x 198.1 cm
Private Collection

1947 Untitled
gouache and ink on paper 29.2 x 38.7 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1947 Untitled
gouache and ink on paper 28.2 x 28.5 cm
Private Collection

1947 Untitled
gouache and ink on paper 26.3 x 29.2 cm
Private Collection

1947 Untitled
lithograph on paper 22.8 x 20 cm
published by Pierre à feu–Maeght Éditeur, Paris

c1947 Untitled
sheet metal, rod, wire, tin cans, and candles 39 x 50.8 x 30.4 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1947 Untitled
sheet metal, wire, and paint 20.3 x 30.4 cm
High Museum of Art, Atlanta

1947 Untitled
gouache and ink on paper 57.7 x 78.1 cm
Private Collection

1947 Untitled
gouache and ink on paper 57.6 x 83.8 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1948 Vertical out of Horizontal
sheet metal, wire, and paint 142.2 x 180.3 x 121.9 cm
Private Collection

1948 Spindly Yellow Legs
sheet metal, wire, and paint 16.8 x 12.7 x 13.3 cm
Private Collection

1948 Rat
sheet metal, lead, wire, and paint 31.7 x 43.1 x 15.2 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1948 Finny Fish
rod, wire, glass, sheet metal, brass, sardine can key, string, and paint 53.3 x 154.9 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1948 Black Widow
sheet metal, wire, and paint 325.1 x 421.5 cm
Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil–Departamento de São Paulo

1948 Aspen
sheet metal, brass, wire, and paint 96.5 x 63.5 x 78.7 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

c1948 Untitled
metal, wire, and paint 20.3 x 17.1 x 11.43 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

c1948 Untitled
sheet metal, wire, and paint 33.6 x 27.9 x 12.7 cm
Private Collection

c1948 Red Moon
sheet metal, wire, and paint 64.7 x 68.5 x 34.2 cm
Private Collection

c1948 Hand of Fatima
sheet metal and wire 36.8 x 24.4 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

c1948 Blue Feather
sheet metal, brass, wire, and paint 106.6 x 139.7 x 45.7 cm 

1949 Scorpion and Diabolo
oil on canvas  55.8 x 66 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1949 Pomegranate
sheet metal, wire, rod, and paint 197.1 x 183.5 x 108.3 cm
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1949 Knitting
oil on canvas 71.1 x 60.9 cm
Private Collection

1949 Jacaranda
sheet metal, wire, and paint 334.9 x .444.9 cm
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

1949 Helmet
oil on canvas 76.2 x 50.8 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1949 Cockscomb
oil on canvas 71.4 x 40.6 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1949 Calder No.1
silkscreen on rayon and fibreglass, plain weave with irregular, uncut looping 84.4 x 124.7 cm
 

1949 Untitled
gouache and ink on paper 26.3 x 29.5 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1949 Untitled (Happy as Larry)
oil on canvas mounted on panel 127 x 95.8 cm
Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison

1949 Untitled
oil on canvas 60.9 x 76.2 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1949 Toilet Paper Holder
brass wire and sheet metal 30.1 x 22.8 x 17.1 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1949 Starfish on Pink
oil on canvas 76.2 x 76.2 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1949 Splotchy
silkscreen on paper 994.8 x 141.6 cm
 


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