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Object Description

Artist

Alexander Calder

Birth Date

1898

Death Date

1976

Nationality

American, French

Title/Object Name

Grey Elipse

Dates

1976

20th century

Artist & Title Notes

Title changed as per Calder Foundation Website 8/20/13 by MLM

Portfolio / Series Title

from the portfolio “Our Unfinished Revolution”

Edition No/State

E.A.

Printer / Publisher / Engraver

Publisher: Alba Editions, New York, for the benefit of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. Press: Mourlot, Paris. Text was printed by Imprimerie Union, Paris. Portfolio was designed and produced by Cartonnages Adine, Paris.

Medium

Lithograph

Description

Circles layered in a somewhat 3-D perspective with red, yellow and grey circles in the background made to look like “stairsteps”. Red, yellow and black circles in “midground” layer and blue circle and large red circle in “foreground” layer. Red circle is almost in center of print.

Credit Line

Gift of Lockheed Martin, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder

Object ID

2004.02.06

Collection

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