Alexander Calder: Assymétrie
This color lithographic poster, produced in 1972 by Maeght Éditeur, features Alexander Calder’s Assymétrie (1972). Depicting an angular treelike form in red, blue, yellow, and orange with its central shape outlined thickly in black, this characteristically charming image echoes Calder’s invention of the mobile, which itself resonates with Constructivist art as well as the language of early abstract painting. The work’s flat, abstract shapes and restricted palette also chime with those found in the artist’s standing steel stabiles.