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Six Planes Escarpé, 1967

Work

Six Planes Escarpé

Date 1967
Media
Sheet metal, bolts, and paint
Dimensions
9'11" × 13' × 12'6"
Collection
Calder Foundation, New York
Monumental Sculpture, Stabile
Related exhibitions  2
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville (2001)

Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York. Grand Intuitions: Calder’s Monumental Sculpture. 21 May 2001–15 November 2003.

Solo Exhibition
Centro Botín, Santander, Spain (2019)

Centro Botín, Santander, Spain. Calder Stories. 29 June–3 November 2019.

Solo Exhibition
Related works  1
Six Planes Escarpé (maquette) (c. 1967)
Six Planes Escarpé (maquette), c. 1967
Archive
Works / Monumental Sculpture 218
Trois pics (intermediate maquette) (1967)
Trois pics (intermediate maquette), 1967
Trois pics (1967)
Trois pics, 1967
Trois disques (intermediate maquette) (1967)
Trois disques (intermediate maquette), 1967
Trois disques II (1967)
Trois disques II, 1967
Works / Stabile 251
Trois pics (maquette) (1967)
Trois pics (maquette), 1967
Trois disques I (1967)
Trois disques I, 1967
Les Ailes brisées (1967)
Les Ailes brisées, 1967
The X and Its Tails (1967)
The X and Its Tails, 1967
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.