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A Detached Person, 1944

Work

A Detached Person

Date 1944
Media
Bronze (in five sections)
Dimensions
18 1⁄4" × 18 3⁄4" × 15 1⁄2"
Bronze
Historical Photos  2
Drawing of A Detached Person (1944)
Drawing of A Detached Person, 1944Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; The Leonard and Ruth Horwich Family Loan
Drawing of A Detached Person, 1944
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Constellation with Sundial (1946)
Installation photograph showing Constellation with Sundial (c. 1943), Alexander Calder: Mobiles, Stabiles, Constellations, Galerie Louis Carré, Paris, 1946
Installation photograph showing Constellation with Sundial (c. 1943), Alexander Calder: Mobiles, Stabiles, Constellations, Galerie Louis Carré, Paris, 1946
Related exhibitions  3
Galerie Louis Carré, Paris (1946)

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

Solo Exhibition
Palazzo a Vela, Turin, Italy (1983)

Palazzo a Vela, Turin, Italy. Calder: Mostra retrospettiva. 2 July–25 September 1983.

Solo Exhibition
Centro Botín, Santander, Spain (2019)

Centro Botín, Santander, Spain. Calder Stories. 29 June–3 November 2019.

Solo Exhibition
Archive
Works / Bronze 37
Dancer (1944)
Dancer, 1944
On One Knee (1944)
On One Knee, 1944
Tightrope Worker (1944)
Tightrope Worker, 1944
Acrobat (1944)
Acrobat, 1944
Related Timeline
1937–1945
1937–1945 Public Commissions and the War

In 1937, Calder completed Devil Fish, his first stabile enlarged from a model. He received two important commissions: Mercury Fountain (1937) and Lobster Trap and Fish Tail (1939). His first retrospective was held in 1938 at the George Walter Vincent Smith Gallery in Springfield, Massachusetts, followed by another in 1943 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.