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Totem-Saché, 1974

Work

Totem-Saché

Date 1974
Media
Sheet metal, rod, and paint
Dimensions
196 3⁄4" × 157 1⁄2" × 78 3⁄4"
Collection
Commune de Saché
Standing Mobile, Totem
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Chronology  1
July 1974

Calder donates the monumental sculpture Totem-Saché, installed in the main square of the town of Saché.

Archive
Works / Standing Mobile 266
Horizontal (1974)
Horizontal, 1974
Carmen (1974)
Carmen, 1974
Feuille d’arbre (1974)
Feuille d'arbre, 1974
Untitled (1975)
Untitled, 1975
Works / Totem 4
Totem (c. 1967)
Totem, c. 1967
Totem (c. 1967)
Totem, c. 1967
Untitled (1967)
Untitled, 1967
Totem-Saché (1974)
Totem-Saché, 1974
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.