Calder Foundation

Fond rouge

Date 1969
Media
Lithograph
Dimensions
22" × 29 1⁄2"
Publisher
Published by Maeght Éditeur, Paris
Printer
Printed by Arte Adrien Maeght, Paris
Edition size
Edition of 75 on Rives, signed and numbered
Works / Print 70
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.