Calder Foundation

Cinq ailes

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

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

Magazine
Works / Monumental Sculpture 217
Works / Stabile 251
Related Timeline
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.