Alexander CALDER (1898-1976) Lot n° 40

Beaucoup de couleurs Lithograph on paper, signed and dedicated in the lower part. A pencil drawing on the center part. 75 x 110 cm 29 17/32 x 43 5/16 in. Alexander Calder Alexander "Sandy" Calder, American sculptor and painter, is widely known for his mobiles and assemblages of forms animated by air movements and his stabiles. The genesis of his career as a sculptor led him to the 1927 "Humorists' Show," where he exhibited articulated toys, before building the Calder Circus of his wire figures. His first drawings were published in the New York press, illustrating various sporting events, urban scenes or circus, whose theme is dear to his work. An artist of shapes and a lithographer of color, the majority of his work intertwines primary colors in geometric or organic compositions. His totally abstract compositions give the illusion of a wire drawing, as were his first works.