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CALDER Alexander
(1898-1976)
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