ALEXANDER CALDER SKY BIRD 1974 Original Lithograph Braniff Airlines Art

  
This is an original 1974 lithograph titled "Sky Bird" by Alexander Calder. This rare lithograph was published by Calder for Braniff Airlines in 1974.

Beautiful rich colors with the embossed seal of Braniff at the bottom. The seal reads The Flying Colors Collection 1975. Bright and fresh with rich colors; never mounted, matted or framed. In mint condition, no tears stains or creases.

Comes with a gallery certificate of authenticity. Alexander Calder is best known for creating mobilessculptures composed of abstract shapes moving through space. Born in 1898, in the Philadelphia area, Calder came from a family of artists.

Both his father and his grandfather were sculptors. After graduating from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1919 with a degree in mechanical engineering, "Sandy" (as he was known by his friends) held various jobs before entering the Art Students League of New York in 1923. In the early 1920s he worked as an illustrator, covering such events as the circus.

In 1926 he went to Paris for the first time and stayed there until the fall of 1927. An active participant in the avant-garde milieu of Paris between the two World Wars, Calder had a wide circle of friends and colleagues in the arts. He met many of them through performances of his entourage of small sculptures, Circus, in the late twenties and through his membership from 1931 in the Abstraction-Création group, a loose alliance of artists promoting diverse multi-national trends in abstract art. It was at this time that he began making small moveable animal figures in wood and in wire, using the wire as if he were drawing in space.

By 1928, Calder was exhibiting his wire sculptures both in the United States and in France, where he resided periodically throughout his life. Calder created his first abstract wire sculptures in the spring of 1931, and that year Galerie Percier in Paris held an exhibition of these works, which Arp called stabiles. By 1932, Calder was composing his forms with the intention of making them move through space. First he experimented with motorized sculptures. But soon, by precisely adjusting the weight and balance of each shape, he created works that floated through space, propelled only by air currents. Known as mobiles, the term was coined by Calders fellow artist, Marcel Duchamp. Dividing his time between homes in Roxbury, Connecticut, and Saché, France, Calder produced a large body of works in a wide variety of mediums. His work was exhibited in several large retrospectives at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1964), the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris (1965), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1974), and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1976). In November 1976, soon after the opening of this last retrospective, which he personally installed, Calder died in New York.

The item "ALEXANDER CALDER SKY BIRD 1974 Original Lithograph Braniff Airlines Art" is in sale since Saturday, November 10, 2018. This item is in the category "Art\Art Prints".

The seller is "forgottentreasurez" and is located in Sherman Oaks, California. This item can be shipped worldwide.

1. Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
2. Artist: Alexander Calder
3. Style: Abstract
4. Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
5. Quantity Type: Single-Piece Work
6. Medium: Lithograph
7. Date of Creation: 1970-1989
8. Original/Reproduction: Original Print
9. Signed: Unsigned
10. Edition Type: Limited Edition
11. Print Type: Lithograph
12. Year: 1974
13. Size Type/Largest Dimension: 20" x 26"
14. Signed?

    : Unsigned

15. Width (Inches): 26
16. Color: Multi-Color
17. Subject: Abstract
18. Main Color: Red
19. Framed/Unframed: Unframed
20. Originality: Limited Edition Print
21. Height (Inches): 20
22. Print Surface: Paper