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Fish, 1947

Work

Fish

Date 1947
Media
Rod, wire, sheet metal, glass, pottery, string, and paint
Dimensions
23 1⁄4" × 63 3⁄4"
Collection
Private Collection
Fish, Hanging Mobile
Historical Photos  1
Ministério da Educação e Saúde (1948)
Installation photograph, Alexander Calder, Ministério da Educação e Saúde, Rio de Janeiro, 1948
Installation photograph, Alexander Calder, Ministério da Educação e Saúde, Rio de Janeiro, 1948
Related exhibitions  1
Ministério da Educação e Saúde, Rio de Janeiro (1948)

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

Solo Exhibition
Archive
Works / Fish 12
Roxbury Fish (c. 1948)
Roxbury Fish, c. 1948
Finny Fish (1948)
Finny Fish, 1948
The Curt Valentin Fish (c. 1950)
The Curt Valentin Fish, c. 1950
Fish (1951)
Fish, 1951
Works / Hanging Mobile 167
Personnage pour Joan Miró (1947)
Personnage pour Joan Miró, 1947
Black Widow (1948)
Black Widow, 1948
Vertical out of Horizontal (c. 1948)
Vertical out of Horizontal, 1948
The New Ritou (c. 1948)
The New Ritou, c. 1948
Related Timeline
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.