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Explosive Object, 1944

Work

Explosive Object

Date 1944
Media
Sheet metal, wire, and paint
Dimensions
43 5⁄16" × 53"
Collection
Private Collection
Standing Mobile
Historical Photos  1
Exposition de peintures et sculptures contemporaines (1947)
Installation photograph, Exposition de peintures et sculptures contemporaines, Palais des Papes à Avignon, France, 1947Photograph by Joaquin Gomis © Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Centre Georges Pompidou, Fonds Cahiers d'art
Installation photograph, Exposition de peintures et sculptures contemporaines, Palais des Papes à Avignon, France, 1947
Photograph by Joaquin Gomis
Chronology  1
27 June–30 September 1947

Calder exhibits Explosive Object in the “Exposition de peintures et sculptures contemporaines,” Palais des Papes, Avignon.

Archive
Works / Standing Mobile 269
Haverford Variation (1944)
Haverford Variation, 1944
Untitled (1944)
Untitled, 1944
The Dot and the I (1944)
The Dot and the I, 1944
4 + 3 (1944)
4 + 3, 1944
Related Timeline
1937–1945
1937–1945 Public Commissions and the War

In 1937, Calder completed Devil Fish, his first stabile enlarged from a model. He received two important commissions: Mercury Fountain (1937) and Lobster Trap and Fish Tail (1939). His first retrospective was held in 1938 at the George Walter Vincent Smith Gallery in Springfield, Massachusetts, followed by another in 1943 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.