A harmony of sound, form, color and motion, Blue Moon is a virtuosic manifestation of the technical ingenuity and conceptual ambition which characterize Alexander Calder's revolutionary sculptural oeuvre. Executed in 1962 for the seminal retrospective Alexander Calder: Sculpture—Mobiles at the Tate Gallery, London, Blue Moon spans a breathtaking twenty-five feet. Suspended fro🧸m two central axes of a red and black rod, its eleven elements, anchored by a central percussive gong, seamlessly pivot and oscillate in a mesmeric, nearly gravity-defying equilibrium between weight and counterweight.
At once invoking spontaneity and awesome grandeur, Blue Moon stands as a triumphant masterpiece within Calder’s singularly inventive body of work. The artist’s gong hanging mobiles are a rarity and highly significant within the artist’s sculptural oeuvre. One of very few examples remaining in private hands, the present work is also distinguished♐ by its scale, as among the largest gong mobiles that Calder ever executed.
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