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Untitled (Circus scene; polo match), c. 1926

Work

Untitled (Circus scene; polo match)

Date c. 1926
Media
Tempera and ink on paperboard
Dimensions
41 ½” × 29 5⁄8”
Collection
Calder Foundation, New York
Oil Painting
Historical Photos  1
High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100 at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2025)
Installation photograph, High Wire: Calder's Circus at 100, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2025
Installation photograph, High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2025
Photograph by Ron Amstutz
Related exhibitions  1
High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100. 18 October 2025–9 March 2026.

Solo Exhibition
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Works / Oil Painting 79
Untitled (1930)
Untitled, 1930
Untitled (1930)
Untitled, 1930
Untitled (1930)
Untitled, 1930
Untitled (1930)
Untitled, 1930
Related Timeline
1926–1930
1926–1930 Wire Sculpture and the Circus

Soon after moving to Paris in 1926, Calder created his Cirque Calder. Made of wire and a spectrum of found materials, the Cirque was a work of performance art that gained Calder an introduction to the Parisian avant-garde. He continued to explore his invention of wire sculpture, whereby he “drew” with wire in three dimensions the portraits of friends, animals, circus themes, and personalities of the day.