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Calder’s Circus Invitation (56th Street Galleries), 1929

Work

Calder's Circus Invitation (56th Street Galleries)

Date 1929
Media
Linoleum cut with ink on paper
Dimensions
14 1⁄4" × 6 5⁄8"
Printer
Printed by the Artist
Edition size
Unnumbered and unsigned edition
Print
Related exhibitions  1
Tate Modern, London (2015)

Tate Modern, London. Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture. 11 November 2015–3 April 2016.

Solo Exhibition
Related works  1
Cirque Calder (1926–1931)
Cirque Calder, 1926–1931
Archive
Works / Print 70
Calder’s Circus Invitation (Chez Hawes-Harden) (1929)
Calder's Circus Invitation (Chez Hawes-Harden), 1929
Grandeur–Immense (1935)
Grandeur–Immense, 1935
Score for Ballet 0–100 (1942)
Score for Ballet 0–100, 1942
The Big I (1944)
The Big I, 1944
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.