Calder presents Cirque Calder at his home in Roxbury for the Miros, Henri Seyrig (Director of the Institut Francais d'Archeologie), and Henrique and Helena Mindlin. (CF, Calder 1955-1956, 155)

20 April: Miro celebrates his and Sandra Calder's birthday with the Calders at their apartment on East Seventy-second Street, New York. He gives Sandra a drawing and she gives him a collage gouache of a butterfly. Calder presents Miro with a mobile personage made of animal bones . (ASCR, conversation with Mary Calder Rower, 16 November 1997)

After 5 May: Calder trades the mobile Polygones noirs for Miro's Femmes et oiseaux dans la nuit (1947), a painting related to Miro's mural for the Terrace Plaza Hotel. (CF, object file)

26 May: The Stable, New Haven, Connecticut exhibits "Alexander Calder." (CF, exhibition file)

7 July: "Le Surrealisme en 1947" is organized by Breton and Duchamp for Galerie Maeght, Paris. Calader produces a lithograph for the catalogue. (Breton and Duchamp, 1947)

December: Calder rebuilds the burned icehouse studio in Roxbury, converting it into a large living room. (AAA, Calder to Warner, 13 December)

9-27 December: "Alexander Calder" is on view at the Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York. (CF, exhibition file)

January: Quadrangle Press publishes Selected Fables with etchings by Calder. Jean de La Fontaine is editor.

Hans Richter's film, Dreams that Money Can Buy, is released after being in production since 1945. Two sequences are made with Calder's collaboration: "Ballet," the fifth dream, and "Circus," the sixth dream. (CF, project file)

Spring: Calder meets Burgess Meredith, who later visits the Calders in Roxbury to discuss making a film about Calder and his mobiles. Calder suggests Herbert Matter as the cinematographer. (Calder 1966, 197)