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Cinq ailes, 1967

Work

Cinq ailes

Date 1967
Media
Sheet metal, bolts, and paint
Dimensions
14'5" × 25'7" × 19'4 1⁄3"
Collection
Vincennes Parc Floral, Paris
Monumental Sculpture, Stabile
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Calder’s International Monuments by Robert Osborn

Osborn, Robert. “Calder’s International Monuments.” Art in America, vol. 57, no. 2 (March–April 1969).

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Works / Monumental Sculpture 217
Red, Black and Blue (1968)
Red, Black and Blue, 1968
El Sol Rojo (1:5 intermediate maquette) (1968)
El Sol Rojo (1:5 intermediate maquette), 1968
El Sol Rojo (1968)
El Sol Rojo, 1968
The Tall One (1968)
The Tall One, 1968
Works / Stabile 251
Totem (c. 1967)
Totem, c. 1967
Totem (c. 1967)
Totem, c. 1967
The Tall One (maquette) (1968)
The Tall One (maquette), 1968
Gwenfritz (1:5 intermediate maquette) (1968)
Gwenfritz (1:5 intermediate maquette), 1968
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.