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Alexander Calder, A major American artist of the 20th century, left an indelible mark on the art world, not only as a sculptor, but also as a painter. As early as the 1930s, he was interested in Representation of the living and explores the beauty and diversity of marine life in his paintings. These reflect the artist's admiration for the French filmmaker Jean Painand his plastic and evocative representations of the seabed.

The sculptures mobiles by Calder, thus designated by Marcel Duchamp, are obtained by the technique of folding and twisting the wire. Symbol of constant movement of life, they reveal a perfect and balanced suspension of flat and abstract shapes painted in primary colors.

If the mobiles Calder's kinetics have largely contributed to his success; his gouaches on paper, a medium he particularly enjoys, are among his most fascinating works. In particular, they were the subject of two exhibitions organized in London and New York by Gagosian galleries in 2014.

They allow him to transcribe sculptural vocabulary to a more immediate medium and to produce a synthesis of his geometric forms. The subjects, whose organic forms evoke marine creatures, corals, or algae, allow him to deepen his Research on abstraction and modernism. The intense and vibrant colors he uses, which are not unlike those of his contemporary Mondrian, add a unique movement and fluidity to his works.

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This exceptional gouache by Alexander Calder, certified by the Calder Foundation, is imbued with this search for the representation of life, but also of the shapes and colors characteristic of the artist.

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