Red Palette, 1947

ArtistAlexander Calder, Philadelphia 1898–1976 New York

Aluminum, steel

(H x W x D)103 × 100 × 94 cm

Status

on display, room 027

About the workThe US artist Alexander Calder is the inventor of the mobile. In 1931, he began creating these objects, which combined abstraction and movement. He infused these free-hanging, balanced works featuring variable elements with a temporal and spatial openness. Calder lived primarily in the artistic metropolis of Paris from 1926 to 1933 and was closely involved with the local art scene. His colleague, the French artist Marcel Duchamp, first used the term “mobile” to describe his sculptures.

AccessionAcquisition 1994

Provenance1947 - 1952 Buchholz Gallery, New York (ab 1951 Curt Valentin Gallery); 1952 Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal; ? - 1994 Karl-Heinz Müller, Hombroich; 9.3.1994 erworben durch Tausch mit Karl-Heinrich Müller, Museum Insel Hombroich

Inventory number0.1994.2

Contact

sammlung@kunstpalast.de

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