Calder Foundation

"When one leaf hangs on a bough…"

Date 1947
Media
Etching in color
Dimensions
14 1⁄4" × 12"
Publisher
Included in Album Ruthven Todd. Text by Ruthven Todd. Album of 14 prints by Calder, Max Ernst, Stanley William Hayter, Jacques Lipchitz, Helen Phillips, André Masson, Joan Miró, and Yves Tanguy.
Printer
Printed at Atelier 17, New York
Edition size
Less than a dozen examples exist, none of them signed or numbered
Works / Print 71
Related Timeline
1946–1952 International Distinction

Calder had a major show in 1946 at Galerie Louis Carré in Paris for which Jean-Paul Sartre wrote a seminal essay. He designed sets and costumes for a number of theatrical performances and designed a huge acoustic ceiling for the Aula Magna auditorium at Universidad Central de Venezuela. In 1952, Calder represented the United States at the Venice Biennale, winning the grand prize for sculpture.