Calder: The Forties / Thomas Dane Exhibition catalog 2005 HC / NEW

Description: Catalog from an exhibition at Thomas Dane Gallery April 13 - May 21, 2005 New. "The 1940s, certainly one of his most prolific periods, was also perhaps the most complete decade of Calder's long artistic life. He explored all the principal forms of his oeuvre in these years, which spanned both wartime, when materials were restricted, and the post-war period when the availability of metal allowed his work to become larger and more exuberant again. In the late 1940s, as a world-famous artist, he undertook ambitious commissions both at home in America and in Europe, where he had first discovered abstraction many years before.   The exhibition at Thomas Dane will include important hanging and standing mobiles, constellations, table pieces, ink drawings and gouaches and jewellery, all from the 1940s. Many of the works have previously been included in historic museum shows.  Boomerangs (1941), for example, is a hanging mobile of sheet metal and wire that perfectly illustrates the artist's desire to create art in motion. Painted in the primary, secondary and 'non-colours' of red, blue, yellow, orange and black that the artist favoured, the piece combines solid volumes with delicate rings and curved shapes. It has been shown in major museums around the world. A lyrical assemblage of materials including hand-carved ebony, wire and paint, Constellation with Bottles (1943) is one of a group of "constellations" constructed between 1942 and 1943. It was made in the year that Calder became the youngest artist ever to be granted a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Meanwhile, Black Skeleton (c.1945) is an exquisitely rocking stabile, made with sheet metal and paint.  The largest of the works on show is More Extreme Cantilever (1949). Realised in the same year as the great International Mobile, now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, this monumental standing mobile was last exhibited in London at the Tate Gallery in 1962, in a retrospective exhibition of the artist's work."  

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