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Toile d’araignée, 1965

Work

Toile d'araignée

Date 1965
Media
Sheet metal, rod, wire, and paint
Dimensions
9' 10" × 19' 8 1⁄4"
Collection
Seattle Art Museum; Promised Gift of Jon & Mary Shirley (no. T2009.56.30)
Hanging Mobile, Monumental Sculpture
Related exhibitions  2
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris (1965)

Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris. Calder. 8 July–15 October 1965. Originated from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Solo Exhibition
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France (1969)

Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France. Calder. 2 April–31 May 1969.

Solo Exhibition
Archive
Works / Hanging Mobile 167
Le Poisson de huit heures (1965)
Le Poisson de huit heures, 1965
Stainless Stealer (maquette, 1966)
Stainless Stealer (maquette), 1966
Black Gamma (1966)
Black Gamma, 1966
Numbered One to Nine (1967)
Numbered One to Nine, 1967
Works / Monumental Sculpture 216
Deux Discs (1965)
Deux Discs, 1965
La Grande voile (intermediate maquette) (1965)
La Grande voile (intermediate maquette), 1965
La Grande voile (1965)
La Grande voile, 1965
The Onion (1965)
The Onion, 1965
Related Timeline
1963–1976
1963–1976 Monumental Works

In 1963, Calder completed construction of a large studio overlooking the Indre Valley. With the assistance of a full-scale, industrial ironworks, he began to fabricate his monumental works in France and devoted much of his later working years to public commissions. Calder died in New York in 1976 at the age of seventy-eight.