Monday, 6 April 2026

Alexander Calder - part 13

This is part 13 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 - 12 also.

c1962 Rug
wool and canvas 68.5 x 106.6 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1962 Untitled
gouache and ink on paper 74.6 x 105.4 cm
Pace Gallery, New York

1962 Untitled
gouache and ink on paper 74.4 x 102.2 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1962 Untitled
gouache and ink on paper 74.2 x 109.5 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1962 Untitled
gouache and ink on paper 74.2 x 102.2 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1962 Untitled
gouache and ink on paper 68.5 x 101.6 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1963 Polygons on Triangles
sheet metal, bolts, and paint 289.5 x 185.7 x 243.8 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1963 Nervures Minces (Thin Ribs)
sheet metal, bolts, and paint 358.1 x 304.8 x 345.4 cm
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark

1963 Le Petit Croissant (The Small Croissant)
sheet metal, wire, and paint 66 x 137.1 cm
Calder Foundation, New York 

1963 Le Bonnet Phrygien (The Phrygien Gap)
sheet metal and paint 295.4 x 158.1 x 42 cm
The St. Louis Art Museum

1963 Guillotine Pour Huit (Guillotine For Eight)
sheet metal and paint 336.7 x 336.7 x 467 cm
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris

1963 Bucéphale (Bucephalus) 
sheet metal, bolts, and paint 320 cm wide
City of Fresno


1963 Tamanoir
sheet metal, bolts, and paint 309.8 x 601.9 x 365.7 cm
Ville de Rotterdam

1963 Southern Cross
sheet metal, rod, bolts, and paint 617.2 x .822.9 x 535.9 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1963 Sabot
sheet metal, bolts, and paint 365.7 x 336.5 x 196.8 cm
Calder Foundation, New York
 

1963 Rug
wool and canvas 100.3 x 92.7 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1963 Rouge triomphant (Triumphant Red)
sheet metal, rod, wire, and paint 614.6 x 972.8 x 762 cm
Nahmad Collection

1963 Polygons on Triangles
sheet metal, bolts, and paint 289.5 x 185.7 x 243.8 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1963 Untitled
ink and gouache on paper 74.9 x 109.2 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1963 Untitled
gouache and ink on paper 74.9 x 109.5 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1963 Untitled
gouache and ink on paper 74.9 x 107.3 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1963 Untitled
gouache and ink on paper 74.6 x 109.2 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1963 The Green Stripe
oil on canvas 88.9 x 129.5 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1963 Untitled
wool and canvas 106.6 x 91.4 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1963 Untitled
sheet metal, wire, and paint 152 x 182.8 x 76.2 cm
Fondation Gandur pour l'Art, Geneva

1963 Untitled
sheet metal and paint 2,867 cm high
The Nestlé Art Collection, Vevey

1963 Untitled
oil on canvas 114.8 x 86.5 cm
Private Collection

c1963 Rug
wool and canvas 152.4 x 93.9 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1964 Nageoire (maquette)
sheet metal and paint 45.7 x 60.9 x 50.8 cm

1964 Five Rudders
sheet metal, rod, bolts, and paint 391.1 x 331.4 cm
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis

1964 Dent de Sagesse (Wisdom Tooth)
sheet metal, bolts, and paint 276.8 x 480 x 276.8 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1964 Contreforts (Foothills)
sheet metal and paint 629.9 x 500.3 cm
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France

1964 Caliban (maquette)
sheet metal and paint 53.9 x 29.2 x 25.4 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1964 Caliban
sheet metal, bolts, and paint 599.4 x 500.3 x250.1 cm F
onds national d'art contemporain, Ministère de la Culture, Paris

1964 Untitled
sheet metal, brass, wire, and paint 19 x 17.7 x 10.1 cm
Private Collection

1964 Untitled
colour lithograph 50.8 x 65.4 cm
Published by Spanish Refugee Aid, New York

1964 The Ghost
sheet metal, rod, wire, and paint 480 x 414 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

1964 Small City
sheet metal, wire, and paint 20.3 x 36.8 x 17.7 cm

1964 Prickly Pear
sheet metal, bolts, and paint 304.8 cm high
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

1964 Octopus
sheet metal, bolts, and paint 304.8 x 274.3 x 167.6 cm
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

1964 Nageoire (Fin) maquette
sheet metal and paint 45.7 x 60.9 x 50.8 cm
sheet metal and paint

1964 Nageoire
sheet metal, bolts, and paint 454.6 x 508 x 50.8 cm
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris

c1965 La Touraine
tin, canvas and wire 81.9 x 54.9 x 77.7 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1965 Têtes et Queue (Heads and Tails)
sheet metal, bolts 548.6 x 469.9 x 350.5 cm
Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz

1965 Shiva
sheet metal and paint 670.5 x 487.6 x 548.6 cm
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Crown Center, Kansas City
 

1965 Les Arêtes de Poisson (Fish Bones) maquette
sheet metal and paint 37.1 x 44.7 x 26.6 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1965 La Grande Voile (The Main Sail)
sheet metal, bolts, and paint 1219.2 cm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge

1965 Deux Discs (Two Discs)
sheet metal and paint 777.2 x 833.1 x 528.3 cm
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

1966 Trois disques (Three Discs) maquette
sheet metal and wire 75.5 x 85 x 50.8 cm
Calder Foundation, New York

1966 The Tree
sheet metal, rod, and paint 518.6 x 1066.8 cm
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel

1966 The Spinner
sheet metal, rod, bolts, and paint 530.8 cm high
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

1966 Quilt
lithograph 55.8 x 76.2 cm
Published by the Founder's Society, Detroit Institute of Arts to commemorate the opening of the South Wing

1966 Large Spiny
sheet metal, bolts, and paint 553.4 x 381 x 259 cm
National Trust for Historic Preservation, Nelson A. Rockefeller Bequest, Pocantico Historic Area

1966 Black Gamma
sheet metal, wire, and paint 274.3 x 365.7 x 254 cm
Private Collection