Calder Foundation

The Signed Balloon

Date 1969
Media
Gouache and ink on paper
Dimensions
43 1⁄4" × 29 3⁄8"
Collection
Calder Foundation, New York
Works / Work on Paper 277
Related Timeline
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.