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  |  | CALDER Alexander (1898-1976) 
    
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    |  |  | Alexander CALDER, a few dates |  |  
 
	
    | 1898 | born in Philadelphia |  
    | 1923 | joins the Art Students League in New York |  
    | 1926 | first show of the calder circus in Paris |  
    | 1930 | meets Piet Mondrian |  
    | 1931 | joins the Abstraction-Création movement |  
    | 1932 | exhibits sculptures qualified as "mobiles" by Marcel Duchamp, it is the beginning of his career |  
    | 1952 | receives the main price of the Venice Biennial |  
    | 1958 | realizes La Spirale, a monumental mobile for the UNESCO in Paris |  
    | 1976 | died in New York |  |