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XXVI Biennale di Venezia, 1952

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XXVI Biennale di Venezia
14 June–19 October 1952Venice
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Venice Biennale (1952)
The Big Ear (1943) outside the American Pavilion at the Twenty-sixth Venice Biennale, 1952
The Big Ear (1943) outside the American Pavilion at the Twenty-sixth Venice Biennale, 1952
Selected works  15
Josephine Baker III (c. 1927)
Josephine Baker III, c. 1927
Calvin Coolidge (1927)
Calvin Coolidge, 1927
Marion Greenwood (1928)
Marion Greenwood, 1928
Helen Wills II (1928)
Helen Wills II, 1928
The Brass Family (1929)
The Brass Family, 1929
Gibraltar (1936)
Gibraltar, 1936
Spiny (maquette) (1939)
Spiny (maquette), 1939
Cage within a Cage (c. 1939)
Cage within a Cage, c. 1939
Black Petals (1939)
Black Petals, 1939
13 Spines (1940)
13 Spines, 1940
Hourglass (1941)
Hourglass, 1941
Constellation (1943)
Constellation, 1943
The Big Ear (1943)
The Big Ear, 1943
Blizzard (1950)
Blizzard, 1950
The Watusi (1950)
The Watusi, 1950
Selected publications  5

Venice. XXVI Biennale di Venezia. Exhibition catalogue. 1952. Introduction by Rodolfo Pallucchini; texts by Christian Zervos and James Johnson Sweeney (excerpt from MoMA 1943).

Group Exhibition Catalogue

“La XXVI Biennale di Venezia.” Sele Arte (July–August 1952).

Magazine

Mellquist, Jerome. “Venice Biennale, 1952: Seeing a United Nations of Art.” Art Digest, vol. 26, no. 19 (August 1952).

Magazine

Falzoni, Giordano. “A Calder il Primo Premio.” Arti Visive, July–August 1952.

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Newspaper

“Venice: This Year’s Biennale.” Art News, vol. 51, no. 5 (September 1952).

Magazine
Chronology  2
29–30 May 1952

Louisa flies from Paris to New York. Calder leaves Paris on 30 May and arrives in Italy to prepare his works for the XXVI Biennale di Venezia.

14–19 June 1952

Calder represents the United States in the XXVI Biennale di Venezia. Sweeney installs the exhibition and writes a short text for the exhibition catalogue. Calder wins the Grand Prize for sculpture.

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Exhibitions / 1946–1952: International Distinction 6

Galerie Louis Carré, Paris. Alexander Calder: Mobiles, Stabiles, Constellations. 25 October–16 November 1946.

Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York. Alexander Calder. 9–27 December 1947.

Ministério da Educação e Saúde, Rio de Janeiro. Alexander Calder. September 1948.

New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Calder. 5 December 1950–14 January 1951.

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1946–1952
1946–1952 International Distinction

Calder had a major show in 1946 at Galerie Louis Carré in Paris for which Jean-Paul Sartre wrote a seminal essay. He designed sets and costumes for a number of theatrical performances and designed a huge acoustic ceiling for the Aula Magna auditorium at Universidad Central de Venezuela. In 1952, Calder represented the United States at the Venice Biennale, winning the grand prize for sculpture.