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Alexander Calder
Three Quintains (Hello Girls) (maquette)1964

Not on view
Standing metal mobile with a slate-blue boat-shaped base, three black spires, and branching red wire arms suspending painted discs and ovals in black, red, yellow, blue, white, and gray
Tabletop mobile sculpture with painted metal elements on a dark rectangular base; thin wire rods connect flat oval discs in red, orange, yellow, blue, black, and white, balanced above dark pointed vertical forms and a pale gray curved shape.
Standing mobile sculpture with a horizontal pale blue metal base supporting two black triangular spires, from which wire armatures suspend flat circular and oval elements in red, black, white, yellow, and blue.

Alexander Calder, Three Quintains (Hello Girls) (maquette), 1964, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Alexander Calder, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Alexander Calder
United States, 1898-1976
Title
Three Quintains (Hello Girls) (maquette)
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1964
Medium
Sheet metal, wire and paint
Dimensions
10 1/4 × 17 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. (26.04 × 44.45 × 34.29 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Alexander Calder
Accession Number
M.66.93
Classification
Architecture
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Barron, Stephanie, and Lisa Mark, eds. Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2013.
Copyright
© Calder Foundation, New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Calder® is a registered trademark of Calder Foundation, New York. NY