Work

Horizontal

Date 1974

Media

Sheet metal, rod, bolts, and paint

Dimensions

275 1⁄2" × 315" × 228 1⁄3"

Collection

Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Dation of the Estate of the Artist, 1983

Monumental Sculpture, Standing Mobile

Historical Photos 2

Gui, The Red Feather (1975), Reims croix du sud (1969), Horizontal (1974) and Feuille d'arbre (1974) outside Le Carroi studio, Saché, 1976

Gui, The Red Feather (1975), Reims croix du sud (1969), Horizontal (1974) and Feuille d’arbre (1974) outside Le Carroi studio, Saché, 1976

Horizontal (1974), Saché, c. 1976

Related exhibitions 1

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

Solo Exhibition

Works / Monumental Sculpture 217

Feuille d'arbre, 1974

Carmen, 1974

Universe, 1974

White Cascade, 1975

Works / Standing Mobile 269

Totem-Saché, 1974

Untitled, 1975

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.