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This free-floating sculpture, called a mobile, hangs from a wall or the ceiling. At the top, four wires curve upward in a spray, two to each side. Below, six wires bow in descending branch-like forms. Eleven small shapes, each in the form of a ball, comma, hourglass-like shape, or paddle, is affixed to or hangs from the end of each wire, and each is a single color in black, yellow, or red.

Alexander Calder

Untitled (The Constellation Mobile), 1941

East Building, Tower Level — Gallery 606

Medium

wire, wood, and paint

Dimensions

overall: 86.4 x 106.7 cm (34 x 42 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls

Accession Number

1996.120.7

Artists / Makers

Alexander Calder (sculptor) American, 1898 - 1976

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Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls, New York; gift 1996 to NGA.

Associated Names

Calder, Alexander
Perls, Klaus

Exhibition History

1997: Alexander Calder: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1997, no. 10, color repro., as The Constellation Mobile.

1998: Alexander Calder: 1898-1976, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1998, no. 153, color repro.

1999: Cosmos: From Romanticism to the Avant-garde, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal; Centro de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona; Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 1999-2000, no. 40, repro. (shown only in Montreal).

2009: Calder: Sculptor of Air, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 2009-2010, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Bibliography

1997: Alexander Calder: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997: no. 10.

1998: Alexander Calder: 1898-1976. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1998: no. 153.