[Calder, Alexander] La Fontaine, Jean.

Selected Fables – Translated by Eunice Clark. Illustrated by Alexander Calder.

First Edition. New York, The Quadrangle Press, 1948. Quarto (23.5 cm wide x 30.5 cm high). 88 pages with line-drawings by Calder throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Faded dampstain to edge, else a very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

Alexander “Sandy” Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static “stabiles”, and his monumental public sculptures. Calder preferred not to analyze his work, saying, “Theories may be all very well for the artist himself, but they shouldn’t be broadcast to other people.″

Calder’s work is in many permanent collections across the world. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, has the largest body of work by Alexander Calder. Other museum collections include the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; the Seattle Art Museum; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. There are two pieces on display in the Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection in Albany, NY.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art offers a view of works by three generations of Alexander Calders. From the second floor window on the east side of the Great Stair Hall (on the opposite side from the armor collection) there is behind the viewer Calder’s own Ghost mobile, ahead on the street is the Swann Memorial Fountain by his father, A. Stirling Calder, and beyond that the statue of William Penn atop City Hall by Calder’s grandfather, Alexander Milne Calder. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Art · Art – Rare · Calder, Alexander · Catalogue Four – International Art · Catalogue No.10 – International Literature · French Literature – Rare · Illustrated Books · Illustrated Books Rare · La Fontaine · Poetry – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 32053AB

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