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Toadstool with Feather, 1948

Work
Toadstool with Feather (1948)
Toadstool with Feather (1948)

Toadstool with Feather

Date 1948
Media
Sheet metal, wire, and paint
Dimensions
7 1⁄4" × 4 3⁄4" × 4 1⁄4"
Collection
Calder Foundation, New York
Standing Mobile
Related exhibitions  1
Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany (2021)

Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany. Alexander Calder: Minimal / Maximal. 22 August 2021–13 February 2022

Solo Exhibition
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Works / Standing Mobile 269
Rat (1948)
Rat, 1948
Blue Feather (c. 1948)
Blue Feather, c. 1948
Red, White and Blue, on Black (1948)
Red, White and Blue, on Black, 1948
Aspen (1948)
Aspen, 1948
Related Timeline
1946–1952
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.