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After Alexander Calder

Moon tapestry

1975
hand-woven maguey fiber 56 h × 81½ w in (142 × 207 cm)
estimate: $8,000–12,000
result: $63,500
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Woven signature, date and number to lower edge ‘14/100 CA 75’. Fabric label to reverse ‘CAC Publication’. This work is number 14 from the edition of 100 published by CAC Publications and Bon Art, Guatemala and Nicaragua.

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5 Things to Know about Alexander Calder's Tapestries

Working with textiles was not new to Calder. As his grandson recalled: “He made his own neckties. He also drew designs directly on canvas that my grandmother then hooked into rugs by hand.”

Calder had a studio in Saché, near France’s L’Atelier Raymond Picaud, and was introduced to their master weaver, Pierre Baudouin, by his artist friend Léon Gischia.

First produced by Picaud and later by Pinton Frères, most of his tapestries were made with Australian wool dyed to Calder's specifications.

Each square yard of tapestry took a month to produce.

Calder's tapestries were featured in his retrospectives at the Guggenheim Museum, New York in 1964 and the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris in 1965, and were the subject of an exhibition at the Whitney Museum, New York in 1971.

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