Alexander Calder - Sala Gaspar ** ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHIC PRINT 1973 **

Original lithographic poster by Alexander Calder (*).
This work was edited on the occasion of the artist's solo exhibition at Sala Gaspar, in Barcelona, in May 1972.
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Specifications:

Dimensions: 75 x 56 cm
Year: 1973
Condition: Very Good (Shows slight overall yellowing due to age. However, this piece has never been framed or exhibited and has always been stored in a professional art folder, so it is offered in very good condition).
Provenance: Private Collection.

The item will be carefully handled and packaged in a reinforced cardboard box. The shipment will be certified with a tracking number.

The shipment will also include transport insurance for the final value of the artwork with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.

(*) Alexander Calder (Philadelphia, United States, 1898 - New York, 1976) was born into a family of artists, but he was not initially drawn to art and instead studied mechanical engineering, which later proved very useful to him. He did not enroll in art school until 1923, where he began by making quick sketches of pedestrians.
Influenced by abstract artists such as Piet Mondrian, Jean Arp, and Joan Miró, he joined the Abstraction-Creation association in 1931, and that same year created a work that Marcel Duchamp dubbed a mobile. It was precisely these mobiles that elevated Calder to the highest peaks of modern sculpture. With them, he aimed to create abstract works endowed with movement, which, thanks to their dynamism, reflected the changing effects of light.
He created mobiles of very different sizes, some gigantic, using colored brass pieces in abstract shapes, connected by wires or strings; usually suspended from the ceiling, they were easily moved through the air due to their light weight.
With these works, he was the first to incorporate movement into artwork and became a precursor to kinetic art. Steel Fish and Red Petals are particularly noteworthy. The enormous success of the mobiles explains why the artist received commissions from a wide variety of countries and why his works grace some of the world's major cities.
He also made stabiles, large, dark, non-moving sculptures that often depict monsters or strange animals. Referring to his mobiles, Alexander Calder once said that with them he intended to give life and movement to the works of Piet Mondrian, which he had the opportunity to see in person and which had a profound impact on him.