Calder Foundation

Untitled

Date 1934
Media
Wood, rod, wire, string, and paint
Dimensions
66 1⁄4" × 30 3⁄4" × 22"
Collection
Calder Foundation, New York; Mary Calder Rower Bequest, 2011
Related exhibitions  2
Pace Gallery, New York (2019)

Pace Gallery, New York. Calder: Small Sphere and Heavy Sphere. 14 September–26 October 2019.

Solo Exhibition
Di Donna Galleries, New York (2024)

Di Donna Galleries, New York. Enchanted Reverie: Klee and Calder. 19 April–8 June 2024.

Group Exhibition
Works / Standing Mobile 270
Related Timeline
1930–1936 Shift to Abstraction

Following a visit in October of 1930 to Piet Mondrian’s studio, where he was impressed by the environmental installation, Calder made his first wholly abstract compositions and invented the kinetic sculpture now known as the mobile. Coined for these works by Marcel Duchamp in 1931, the word “mobile” refers to both “motion” and “motive” in French. He also created stationary abstract works that Jean Arp dubbed “stabiles.”