Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976) Lithograph. Title - Clair de Lune Dans une Rafale de Vent, or (Moonlight in a Gust of Wind). Color lithograph print. Edition size 78/90. Sheet measures 18.8 inches high, 26 wide. Signed lower right CA with the letters - lder signed in pencil. Sight size measures 18 inches high, 25 inches wide. Sheet measures 18.75 inches high, 25.6 inches wide. Frame measures 22.7 inches high, 29.5 inches wide. In good condition. Taped along top back and not laid down. Included with the print is the original 1972 invoice from Galerie Adrien Maeght in Paris, France. Also included is 1972 Calder Autobiographie - hardback book by Maeght Editeur.

From Askart: Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, into a family of artists. His father Alexander Stirling Calder, was an American sculptor and one of his best known works is George Washington as President on the Washington Square Arch in New York City. Stirling Calder was also a teacher who studied under Thomas Eakins. In 1919 his son Alexander Calder received an engineering degree from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken. Calder attended the Art Students League, New York, from 1923 to 1926, studying briefly with Thomas Hart Benton and John Sloan, among others. As a freelance artist for the National Police Gazette in 1925, he spent two weeks sketching at the circus; his fascination with the subject dates from this time. He also made his first sculpture in 1925; the following year he made several constructions of animals and figures with wire and wood. In 1943, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, gave him a solo exhibition. During the 1950s, Calder traveled widely and executed Towers (wall mobiles) and Gongs (sound mobiles). He won the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the 1952 Venice Biennale. Late in the decade, the artist worked extensively with gouache; from this period, he executed numerous major public commissions. In 1964-65, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, presented a Calder retrospective. He began the Totems in 1966 and the Animobiles in 1971; both are variations on the standing mobile. A Calder exhibition was held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 1976.Calder died November 11, 1976, in New York.

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