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- Produced first by Picaud and then by Pinton Frères, the majority of the tapestries were made from Australian wool dyed to Calder’s specifications; each square metre of tapestry took a month to produce. Calder prepared his tapestry designs on sheets of coloured paper the size of his large gouaches.
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Nov 20, 2020 · Produced first by Picaud and later by Pinton Frères, the majority of the tapestries were made with Australian wool dyed to Calder’s specifications; each square yard of tapestry took a month...
Apr 30, 2015 · What made the Calder Bicentennial tapestries special is that the French government in the spirit of celebration allowed 200 sets to be woven. It was a magnanimous gesture — and an optimistic one. Only about 45 sets were actually ever made, which leads to confusion about supply in both directions.
- The Beginning of Tapestry with Aubusson
- Exhibition of Calder’s Tapestries
- Fiber Tapestries
- Calder Rug by Cuttoli
In 1960, Pierre Baudouin, master cartonnier at the Raymond Picaud workshop in France, asked the painter Léon Gischia if he knew any artists who would like to make tapestries. Gischia didn’t hesitate: Alexander Calder. Best known for his mobiles and public sculptures, Calder had a studio in Saché, not far from Baudouin’s Aubusson base, and soon bega...
Calder’s tapestries are closely related to his gouaches, but they are much larger and often more complex in conception. As in all his works, the compositions are deceptively casual and have the same playful element that animates even the most powerful of his abstractions. Their appearance turned the heads of connoisseurs, and the tapestries soon fe...
In 1972, two days before Christmas, a subsurface earthquake in neighbouring Nicaragua killed 5,000 people and left 250,000 destitute. The devastation drew the grandiose sympathies of Richard Nixon and Pope Paul VI, both of whom made lengthy public orations, but it was Manhattan socialite Kitty Meyer who set her sights on a huge visual arts project ...
Alexander Calder – Rug / Tapestry The third technique of Calder tapestries are the rugs/tapestries from the Cuttoli workshop. These are very graphic and people (including Calder himself) hang them on walls, so inevitably they are called tapestries. In the book, Calder’s Universe, which was published in conjunction with the Calder retrospective at t...
Sep 20, 2018 · Alexander Calder was one artist to join the effort, seeing it as an opportunity to promote the arts and culture of this impacted community. He designed a series of tapestries, including the set now owned by the Smart, to be produced by Guatemalan weavers affected by this natural disaster.
In 1962 Calder designed a group of tapestries to be woven in Aubusson, famous for its weaving workshops. The influence of the mobile can be seen in Autumn Leaves, in both the abstract form and bold vibrant colours.
- Tapestry
- Autumn Leaves (assigned by artist)
Alexander Calder (American, 1898 – 1976) created over 80 designs that were translated into Aubusson tapestries, making his output among the most prolific by a world-class artist. The simplicity of his designs made them both artistically stunning and cost-effective to create.
Jun 3, 2021 · To mark the occasion of America’s Bicentennial in 1976, a special series of Calder designs were commissioned for Aubusson tapestries. Though smaller and generally less complex than the earlier examples, the Bicentennial tapestries were produced in greater numbers.
