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Deux Discs, 1965

Work

Deux Discs

Date 1965
Media
Sheet metal and paint
Dimensions
25'6" × 27'4" × 17'4"
Collection
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Monumental Sculpture, Stabile
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Related exhibitions  1
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
Related works  2
Deux discs I (maquette) (c. 1965)
Deux discs I (maquette), c. 1965
Deux discs II (maquette) (c. 1965)
Deux discs II (maquette), c. 1965
Archive
Works / Monumental Sculpture 217
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
Shiva (1965)
Shiva, 1965
Works / Stabile 251
Le Baron (1965)
Le Baron, 1965
Triangles and Arches (1965)
Triangles and Arches, 1965
Object in Five Planes (1965)
Object in Five Planes, 1965
Têtes et queue (1965)
Têtes et queue, 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.