Alexander Calder "The Blériot" Notebook

This leather-feeling hardcover journal features Calder's The Blériot debossed on the front cover and printed endpapers with illustrations from his Untitled, 1943. Interior pages are printed in reverse, light gray page with white lined/dots.  Measures 5.8 x 8.3 inches (14.8 x 21 cm) 160 text pages, (80 lined on front, 80 dot grid on back (printed in reverse, light gray page with white lined/dots) printed on FSC certified paper Hardcover with leather-like material Printed in China Throughout his career, Calder illustrated many of his mobiles, stabiles, and standing mobiles for exhibition catalogues published in the United States and abroad. These sketches express the dynamic nature of his output in two dimensions and offer valuable insight into a sculpture’s composition and orientation. The cover of this notebook features a drawing made in 1949 for Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York. The endpaper illustrations come from an extraordinary double-sided drawing that Calder made from memory as a lead-up to his 1943 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, tracing his evolution as an abstract artist. Alexander Calder, The Blériot (Illustration for Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin exhibition catalogue), 1949 © 2024 Calder Foundation, New York, All Rights Reserved. Calder® is a registered trademark of Calder Foundation, New York.