George Hoyningen-Huene / Condé Nast via Getty Images<br/>
<em>Calder with Cirque Calder (1926–31), Paris</em> 1930<br/>
black and white photograph<br/>
© 2019 Calder Foundation, New York / Copyright Agency, Australia<br/>

Alexander Calder in Paris

Sat 6 Apr 19, 2pm–3pm

George Hoyningen-Huene / Condé Nast via Getty Images<br/> <em>Calder with Cirque Calder (1926–31), Paris</em> 1930<br/> black and white photograph<br/> © 2019 Calder Foundation, New York / Copyright Agency, Australia<br/>
Past program

NGV International

Clemenger BBDO Auditorium
Ground Level

Hearing loops and accessible seating are available.

In the 1920s Alexander Calder made three trips to Paris. What impact did this period of travel have on Calder’s progression from a painter who made his living sketching and making toys to creating work that critics would describe as ‘drawing in space’?

This is an Auslan interpreted program.

Speaker
Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Professor of Modern Art, University of Virginia
Access International Sculpture & Installation Alexander Calder