Calder Foundation

Trois disques I

Date 1967
Media
Stainless steel sheet and bolts
Dimensions
780" × 996" × 636"
Collection
City of Montreal
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Calder’s International Monuments by Robert Osborn

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

Magazine
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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.

Works / Monumental Sculpture 217
Works / Stabile 251
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.