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Trois disques I, 1967

Work

Trois disques I

Date 1967
Media
Stainless steel sheet and bolts
Dimensions
780" × 996" × 636"
Collection
City of Montreal
Monumental Sculpture, Stabile
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Historical Photos  5
Trois disques I, Montreal (1967)
Trois disques I, Montreal, 1967Photograph by Ugo Mulas © Ugo Mulas Heirs
Trois disques I, Montreal, 1967
Photograph by Ugo Mulas
Trois disques I (1967)
Trois disques I, Montreal, 1967Photograph by Ugo Mulas © Ugo Mulas Heirs
Trois disques I, Montreal, 1967
Photograph by Ugo Mulas
Trois disques I, Etablissements Biémont, Tours, France (1967)
Calder with a plywood assembly diagram of Trois disques I during the first trial installation of the monumental sculpture at Etablissements Biémont, Tours, France, 1967
Calder with a plywood assembly diagram of Trois disques I during the first trial installation of the monumental sculpture at Etablissements Biémont, Tours, France, 1967
Fabrication of Trois disques I (1967)
Fabrication of Trois disques I at Etablissements Biémont, Tours, France, 1967
Fabrication of Trois disques I at Etablissements Biémont, Tours, France, 1967
Trois disques I, Montreal (1967)
Trois disques I, Montreal, 1967Photograph by Ugo Mulas © Ugo Mulas Heirs
Trois disques I, Montreal, 1967
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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Related works  3
Trois disques (maquette) (1966)
Trois disques (maquette), 1966
Trois disques (intermediate maquette) (1967)
Trois disques (intermediate maquette), 1967
Trois disques II (1967)
Trois disques II, 1967
Chronology  1
May 1967

Calder’s monumental stabile in unpainted stainless steel, commissioned by the International Nickel Company, is presented at the 1967 International and Universal Exposition (Expo ’67) in Canada, where the theme is “Man and His World.” I called it Three Discs, but

when I got over to Canada, they wanted to call it Man.

Archive
Works / Monumental Sculpture 216
Cactus provisoire (1967)
Cactus provisoire, 1967
Tom’s Cubicle (1967)
Tom's Cubicle, 1967
Crossed Blades (1967)
Crossed Blades, 1967
The X and Its Tails (1967)
The X and Its Tails, 1967
Works / Stabile 251
Les Ailes brisées (1967)
Les Ailes brisées, 1967
Morning Cobweb (intermediate maquette) (1967)
Morning Cobweb (intermediate maquette), 1967
The Kite that Never Flew (1967)
The Kite that Never Flew, 1967
Les Trois ailes II (1967)
Les Trois ailes II, 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.