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Lot Essay
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A14103.
In addition to his works with sharply delineated forms, Calder also executed gestural and painterly gouaches, which he referred to as "the watery variety." Using a working method akin to Surrealist automatism, he would splash water on the paper which would suggest imagery and "draw on it with a brush full of China ink-this would develop clouds and trees and fungi and things of that nature."(J. Lipman, Calder's Universe, New York, 1976, p.119).
In addition to his works with sharply delineated forms, Calder also executed gestural and painterly gouaches, which he referred to as "the watery variety." Using a working method akin to Surrealist automatism, he would splash water on the paper which would suggest imagery and "draw on it with a brush full of China ink-this would develop clouds and trees and fungi and things of that nature."(J. Lipman, Calder's Universe, New York, 1976, p.119).