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Crossed Blades (maquette), c. 1966

Work

Crossed Blades (maquette)

Date c. 1966
Media
Sheet metal and paint
Dimensions
21" × 21 3⁄4" × 18"
Collection
Calder Foundation, New York
Stabile
Related exhibitions  1
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2019)

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor. 5 April–4 August 2019. Originated from Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Solo Exhibition
Related works  1
Crossed Blades (1967)
Crossed Blades, 1967
Archive
Works / Stabile 251
Trois disques (maquette) (1966)
Trois disques (maquette), 1966
Tom’s (maquette) (c. 1966)
Tom's (maquette), c. 1966
Cafritz Fountain (maquette) (1966)
Cafritz Fountain (maquette), 1966
The Wave (maquette) (1966)
The Wave (maquette), 1966
Related Timeline
1963–1976
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.