Work

Cactus provisoire

Date 1967

Media

Sheet metal and paint

Dimensions

9'10" × 16'4 13⁄16"

Collection

Trinity College Library, Dublin

Monumental Sculpture, Stabile

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Historical Photos 4

Le Faucon (1963) and Cactus provisoire (1967), Saché, 1968Photograph by Clovis Prevost © Clovis Prevost

Le Faucon (1963) and Cactus provisoire (1967), Saché, 1968

Photograph by Clovis Prevost

Calder and Miró outside Fondation Maeght (1969)

Calder and Joan Miró with Cactus provisoire (1967) and Les Triangles (1963) outside Calder, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, 1969Photograph by Ugo Mulas © Ugo Mulas Heirs

Calder and Joan Miró with Cactus provisoire (1967) and Les Triangles (1963) outside Calder, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, 1969

Photograph by Ugo Mulas

Guillotine pour huit (1963) outside Calder, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, 1969. Les Triangles (1963) and Cactus provisoire (1967) are visible in the background.Photograph by Claude Gaspari

Postcard showing aerial view of Le Carroi Saché (1976)

Postcard showing aerial view of Le Carroi, Saché, c. 1976

Related exhibitions 1

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

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

Solo Exhibition

Works / Monumental Sculpture 217

Tom's Cubicle, 1967

Crossed Blades, 1967

The X and Its Tails, 1967

Les Ailes brisées, 1967

Works / Stabile 251

Morning Cobweb (intermediate maquette), 1967

The Kite that Never Flew, 1967

Les Trois ailes II, 1967

Cinq ailes, 1967

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.