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La Grande voile (intermediate maquette), 1965

Work

La Grande voile (intermediate maquette)

Date 1965
Media
Sheet metal and paint
Dimensions
96" × 84" × 60"
Collection
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Gift of Catherine N. & Julius A. Stratton, 1978
Monumental Sculpture, Stabile
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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.