Work

Le Guichet

Date 1963

Media

Sheet metal, bolts, and paint

Dimensions

14' × 22'

Collection

Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall

Monumental Sculpture, Stabile

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Historical Photos 2

Nervures Minces, Le Carroi studio, Saché, 1963Photograph by Ugo Mulas © Ugo Mulas Heirs

Nervures Minces, Le Carroi studio, Saché, 1963

Photograph by Ugo Mulas

Calder at the installation of Le Guichet (1963), Lincoln Center, New York, 1965Photograph by Ugo Mulas © Ugo Mulas Heirs

Calder at the installation of Le Guichet (1963), Lincoln Center, New York, 1965

Photograph by Ugo Mulas

Featured Text 1

Calder’s International Monuments by Robert Osborn

Osborn, Robert. “Calder’s International Monuments.” Art in America, vol. 57, no. 2 (March–April 1969).

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Chronology 1

15 November 1965

Calder dedicates Le Guichet, a monumental stabile installed in Lincoln Center Plaza, New York.

Works / Monumental Sculpture 216

Sabot, 1963

Bucéphale, 1963

Les Trois ailes, 1963

Nervures Minces, 1963

Works / Stabile 251

Les Triangles, 1963

Untitled, 1963

Le Faucon, 1963

Guillotine pour huit, 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.