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Le Cèpe, 1963

Work

Le Cèpe

Date 1963
Media
Sheet metal and paint
Dimensions
8'6 1⁄3" × 10'10" × 9'11"
Collection
Shinsegae Co., Ltd., Seoul
Monumental Sculpture, Stabile
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Historical Photos  3
Calder painting Untitled, Le Carroi studio, Saché (1963)
Calder painting Untitled with Les Triangles and Le Cèpe in the foreground, Le Carroi studio, Saché, 1963Photograph by Ugo Mulas © Ugo Mulas Heirs
Calder painting Untitled with Les Triangles and Le Cèpe in the foreground, Le Carroi studio, Saché, 1963
Photograph by Ugo Mulas
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
Sandra Calder Davidson wearing a Calder brooch (c. 1940) at Galerie Maeght, Paris (1963)
Sandra Calder Davidson wearing a Calder brooch (c. 1940) at the opening reception for Alexander Calder: Stabiles, Galerie Maeght, Paris, 1963. Le Cèpe is visible in the background.Photograph by Ugo Mulas © Ugo Mulas Heirs
Sandra Calder Davidson wearing a Calder brooch (c. 1940) at the opening reception for Alexander Calder: Stabiles, Galerie Maeght, Paris, 1963. Le Cèpe is visible in the background.
Photograph by Ugo Mulas
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
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.