Calder Foundation

Reims croix du sud

Date 1969
Media
Sheet metal, rod, and paint
Dimensions
275 1⁄2" × 236 1⁄4" × 354 1⁄2"
Collection
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Dation of the Estate of the Artist, 1983
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Historical Photos  2
Related exhibitions  1
Palazzo a Vela, Turin, Italy (1983)

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

Solo Exhibition
Works / Monumental Sculpture 217
Works / Standing Mobile 269
Related Timeline
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.