A modern lithograph on Arches paper titled “Friendship” by Alexander Calder. From the Flying Colors Collection for Braniff Airlines. Original painting was created in 1974 and the published print in 1975. Signed and dated in the plate lower right corner with the embossed stamp. Alexander Calder and Braniff International Airways collaborated on multiple projects, including the painting of a Douglas DC-8-62 airliner. Calder also created fiberglass models with hand-painted designs for the DC-8 plane. Five of these models were displayed at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City in 1973. In 1975, Calder and Braniff collaborated again to commemorate the United States Bicentennial. Calder painted a Boeing 727-200 with red, white, and blue ribbon-like strokes. This lithograph was also part of the collaborations in the 1970s and a celebration of modernism. From a private collection. Dimensions: 31.5”h x 35.75”w x 1”d (framed). In very good vintage condition.
Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures. Calder preferred not to analyze his work, saying, "Theories may be all very well for the artist himself, but they shouldn't be broadcast to other people." Galerie Maeght in Paris became Calder's exclusive Parisian dealer in 1950 and represented the artist until his passing. In 2010, his metal mobile Untitled (Autumn Leaves), sold at Sotheby's New York for $3.7 million. Another mobile brought $6.35 million at Christie's later that year. Also at Christie's, a standing mobile called Lily of Force (1945), which was expected to sell for $8 to $12 million, was bought for $18.5 million in 2012. Calder's 7.5-foot-long hanging mobile Poisson volant (Flying Fish) (1957) fetched $25.9 million, setting an auction record for the sculptor at Christie's New York in 2014.
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