Alexander Calder, (after) - Sala Gaspar ** ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHIC PRINT 1973 **

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

** LAST REMAINING COPIES **

Specifications:

Dimensions: 75 x 56 cm
Year: 1973
Condition: Very Good (Shows light overall yellowing due to age. Nevertheless, this work has never been framed nor exhibited, and has always been kept in a professional art folder, so it is offered in very good condition).
Provenance: Private Collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard. The shipment will be insured with a tracking number.

The shipment will also include transport insurance for the final value of the work 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 an artistic family, but did not initially feel drawn to art and studied mechanical engineering, which later proved very useful. He did not enroll in an art school until 1923, where he began by quick sketches of pedestrians.
Influenced by abstract artists such as Piet Mondrian, Jean Arp and Joan Miró, in 1931 he joined the Abstraction-Creation association, and in the same year created a work that Marcel Duchamp named a mobile. It is precisely the mobiles that elevated Calder to the highest heights of modern sculpture. With them he aimed to create abstract works endowed with movement, reflecting, through their dynamism, the changing effects of light.
He produced mobiles of very different sizes, some gigantic, in which he used colored brass pieces of abstract shapes, joined by wires or strings; suspended from the ceiling in most cases, due to their light weight they were easily moved by the air.
With these works, he was the first to incorporate movement into a work of art and became a pioneer of kinetic art. Notably Steel Fish and Red Petals stand out. Calder's great success with the mobiles explains why the creator received commissions from the most diverse countries and why his works adorn some of the world's major cities.
He also produced stabiles, non-mobile sculptures, large and dark in color, often reproducing monsters or strange animals. Referring to his mobiles, Alexander Calder once said that with them he had intended to give life and movement to the works of Piet Mondrian, which he had the opportunity to see in person and which left a deep impression on him.