Alexander Calder

Calder in his Paris studio, 14 Rue de la Colonie, fall 1931. Photograph by Marc Vaux

In 1970 AT&T purchased Jeune fille et sa suite 'Young Woman and Her Suitors', a Alexander Calder Stabile. Jeune fille et sa suite stood on the corner of Cass and Michigan avenues in Detroit from 1972-2006. In 2006 AT&T Donated the sculpture to the Detroit institute of the arts. After 2 years of conservation treatment the Sculpture has been reinstalled on the John R street side of the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Alexander Calder is one of my most influencial artist, whenever I see a mobile, it still amazes me to think that someone had to come up with the idea and it was Alexander Calders wonderful mind that did. Before the Stabiles and Mobiles, Calder travelled Paris Montparnasse and became friends with people like Miro, Arp and Duchamp. Upon the advice of a Serbian toy maker, Calder began to make figures from wire and cloth and this was the birth of Cirque Calder

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