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Guillotine pour huit, 1963

Work

Guillotine pour huit

Date 1963
Media
Sheet metal and paint
Dimensions
22'11 9⁄16" × 22'11 9⁄16" × 15'3 7⁄8"
Collection
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Dation of the Estate of the Artist, 1983
Monumental Sculpture, Stabile
Historical Photos  4
Nervures Minces Le Carroi studio Saché (1963)
Nervures Minces, Le Carroi studio, Saché, 1963Photograph by Ugo Mulas © Ugo Mulas Heirs
Nervures Minces, Le Carroi studio, Saché, 1963
Photograph by Ugo Mulas
Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition (1964)
Installation photograph, Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1964Photograph by Robert Mates © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Installation photograph, Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1964
Photograph by Robert Mates
Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition (1964)
Installation photograph, Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1964Photograph by Robert Mates © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Installation photograph, Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1964
Photograph by Robert Mates
Fondation Maeght (1969)
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
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
Related exhibitions  5
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1964)

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition. 6 November 1964–31 January 1965.

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

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

Solo Exhibition
Palazzo a Vela, Turin, Italy (1983)

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

Solo Exhibition
Fundación del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao (2003)

Fundación del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao. Calder: Gravedad y la Gracia. 18 March–12 October 2003.

Solo Exhibition
Archive
Works / Monumental Sculpture 218
Sabot (1963)
Sabot, 1963
Le Guichet (1963)
Le Guichet, 1963
Bucéphale (1963)
Bucéphale, 1963
Les Trois ailes (1963)
Les Trois ailes, 1963
Works / Stabile 251
Nervures Minces (1963)
Nervures Minces, 1963
Les Triangles (1963)
Les Triangles, 1963
Untitled (1963)
Untitled, 1963
Le Faucon (1963)
Le Faucon, 1963
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.