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Yellow Panel, c. 1936

Work

Yellow Panel

Date c. 1936
Media
Plywood, wood, sheet metal, wire, paint, and motor
Dimensions
70" × 38 5⁄8" × 15 3⁄4"
Collection
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Panel / Frame, Wall Sculpture
Historical Photos  1
Alexander Calder: Sculptures and Constructions (1943)
Installation photograph, Alexander Calder: Sculptures and Constructions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1943Photograph by Soichi Sunami © Museum of Modern Art, Soichi Sunami
Installation photograph, Alexander Calder: Sculptures and Constructions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1943
Photograph by Soichi Sunami
Related exhibitions  1
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1943)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Alexander Calder: Sculptures and Constructions. 29 September 1943–16 January 1944.

Solo Exhibition
Archive
Works / Panel / Frame 24
The Orange Panel (1936)
The Orange Panel, 1936
Petit Panneau Bleu (c. 1936)
Petit Panneau Bleu, c. 1936
Untitled (1937)
Untitled, 1937
S and Star (1941)
S and Star, 1941
Works / Wall Sculpture 40
Mobile with Four Spots (1941)
Mobile with Four Spots, 1941
Constellation (1943)
Constellation, 1943
Constellation (1943)
Constellation, 1943
Untitled (1943)
Untitled, 1943
Related Timeline
1930–1936
1930–1936 Shift to Abstraction

Following a visit in October of 1930 to Piet Mondrian’s studio, where he was impressed by the environmental installation, Calder made his first wholly abstract compositions and invented the kinetic sculpture now known as the mobile. Coined for these works by Marcel Duchamp in 1931, the word “mobile” refers to both “motion” and “motive” in French. He also created stationary abstract works that Jean Arp dubbed “stabiles.”