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Five Empties, 1973

Work

Five Empties

Date 1973
Media
Sheet metal, rod, bolts, and paint
Dimensions
281" × 250" × 250"
Collection
Calder Foundation, New York
Monumental Sculpture, Standing Mobile
Historical Photos  2
Calder in front of his BMW Art Car (1975)
Calder in front of his BMW Art Car with Hervé Poulain, Jean Marie Curien, Jean Louis Maesen, and Jochen Neerpasch, Saché, 1975Photograph by Jean-Marie Bottequin
Calder in front of his BMW Art Car with Hervé Poulain, Jean Marie Curien, Jean Louis Maesen, and Jochen Neerpasch, Saché, 1975Photograph by Jean-Marie Bottequin
Calder BMW Art Car (1:5 intermediate maquette) in front of Calder BMW Art Car, Saché (1975)
Calder BMW Art Car (1:5 intermediate maquette) in front of Calder BMW Art Car, Saché, 1975
Calder BMW Art Car (1:5 intermediate maquette) in front of Calder BMW Art Car, Saché, 1975
Related exhibitions  2
Palazzo a Vela, Turin, Italy (1983)

Palazzo a Vela, Turin, Italy. Calder: Mostra retrospettiva. 2 July–25 September 1983.

Solo Exhibition
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2014)

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Alexander Calder at the Rijksmuseum. 21 June–5 October 2014.

Solo Exhibition
Archive
Works / Monumental Sculpture 217
Frère (1973)
Frère, 1973
Eléments démontables (1974)
Eléments démontables, 1974
Black Flag (1974)
Black Flag, 1974
Cheval rouge (1974)
Cheval rouge, 1974
Works / Standing Mobile 269
Crag (1974)
Crag, 1974
Crag with Yellow Boomerang and Red Eggplant (1974)
Crag with Yellow Boomerang and Red Eggplant, 1974
Horizontal (1974)
Horizontal, 1974
Totem-Saché (1974)
Totem-Saché, 1974
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.