Forty Years of Calder Books

Artworks by Alexander Calder: © 2025 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Pace Publishing

Forty Years of Calder Books

Explore Pace Publishing’s 40-year history of producing books on Alexander Calder. Pace has worked closely with the Calder Estate since 1984, and this capsule collection highlights the many facets of Calder’s influential practice and the varied approaches to documenting his oeuvre.

Included are recent, rare, and special edition publications, from early titles such as Calder’s Calders (1985) and Calder Stabiles (1989), to last year’s Calder: Un effet du japonais, the gallery’s first bilingual publication in English and Japanese that explores the enduring resonance of Calder’s art with Japanese traditions and aesthetics. Other highlights include Calder/Miró: Constellations (2017), a three-volume boxed set that puts the work and lives of the two artists and lifelong friends in conversation; Calder: Gouaches 1942–1976 (2006), which focuses on the artist’s colorful paintings on paper; and the Calder flip book bundle, newly available online and containing three pocket-size flip books highlighting the movement of his works Vertical Foliage (1941), Blue Feather (c. 1948), and Fish Pull-toy (1960).

Stabiles by Alexander Calder

Calder: Stabiles, Pace Publishing, 1989

Calder
Stabiles

1989

Paperback
12 × 9 inches
24 pages

Published in 1989, Calder: Stabiles offers a vibrant exploration of Calder’s iconic stationary sculptures. With an accordion-folded interior, this publication features 25 color illustrations that highlight the dynamic forms and lively geometry of the stabiles.

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Cover of Alexander Calder: The 50s

Alexander Calder: The 50s, Pace Publishing, 1995

Alexander Calder
The 50s

1995

Text by Milly Glimcher, Alexander S. C. Rower

Paperback
7 ⅞ × 5 ½ inches
81 pages

This softcover publication with a debossed cover image collects works by Alexander Calder created during the 1950s and included in exhibitions at Pace Gallery in Beverly Hills and New York in 1995. Alexander Calder: The 50s also features an essay by Milly Glimcher and a chronology of the influential decade in the artist’s career by Alexander S. C. Rower.

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Alexander Calder: Flip Book Bundle

Clockwise from left: Calder: Vertical Foliage Flip Book, Calder: Fish Pull-toy Flip Book, Calder: Blue Feather Flip Book, Paper Ball, 2001

Calder
Flip Book Bundle

2001

Paperback
4 ¾ × 4 inches each
Bundle of 3 flip books

This bundle contains three pocket-size flip books highlighting the movement of Alexander Calder’s Vertical Foliage (1941), Blue Feather (c. 1948), and Fish Pull-toy (1960).

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Gouaches 1942–1976 by Alexander Calder

Calder: Gouaches 1942–1976, Pace Publishing, 2006

Calder
Gouaches 1942–1976

2006

Paperback
9 ¾ × 10 ½ inches
72 pages

Published in 2006, Calder: Gouaches 1942–1976 presents a striking selection of Calder’s colorful gouache paintings on paper, exhibited at Pace in New York. Here, recognizable forms such as birds, suns, stars, and people commingle with abstract spirals, circles, pyramids, and waves, capturing the energy of Calder’s artistic output over three decades.

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Cover of Calder 1941

Calder 1941, Pace Publishing, 2011

Calder 1941

2011

Text by Jessica Holmes

Paperback
9 ½ × 8 inches
43 pages

1941 was a seminal year in Alexander Calder’s career and the apotheosis of a decade of experimentation following his creation of the mobile in 1931. Published on the occasion of the 2011 exhibition at Pace Gallery in New York, this catalogue presents a selection of Calder’s hanging and standing mobiles created over the course of this milestone year. Along with an essay by Calder scholar Jessica Holmes, Calder 1941 also includes a series of 1941 photographs of the artist’s Roxbury, Connecticut, studio by celebrated photographer Herbert Matter, which capture many of the works on view.

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Calder After the War by Alexander Calder

Calder After the War, Pace Publishing, 2013

Calder After the War

2013

Text by Sir Norman Foster, Barbara Rose, Alexander S. C. Rower
Hardcover
12 ½ × 11 inches
164 pages

This book focuses on Alexander Calder’s artistic output—including sculptures, paintings, gouaches, and other works on paper—during the pivotal post–war period of 1945–1949. Published in conjunction with the 2013 exhibition at Pace Gallery in London, Calder After the War includes an introduction by Sir Norman Foster, an essay by Barabra Rose, an illustrated chronology by Alexander S. C. Rower, and an English translation of the 1946 text “Les Mobiles de Calder” by Jean-Paul Sartre.

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Cover view of Miro and Calder's Constellations

Calder/Miró: Constellations, Pace Publishing, 2017

Calder/Miró
Constellations

2017

Text by Milly Glimcher, Joan Punyet Miró, Margit Rowell, Alexander S. C. Rower

Publisher: Pace Publishing, Acquavella Galleries, Rizzoli
Hardcover
12 × 9 ¾ inches
3 volume set, 400 pages

The sculptor Alexander Calder and the painter Joan Miró met in Paris in 1928 and became lifelong friends. This deluxe boxed set places the carved wood sculptures of Calder alongside the poetical paintings of Miró and provides fresh insights into the visual dialogue between these two artists.

The slipcased box includes three books: one book on Miró’s Constellations, one on Calder’s Constellations, and one on their relationship with a shared chronology, correspondence, and photographs. Now out of print, this publication has two unique slipcases; one cover features the Miró work Femmes au bord du lac à la surface irisée par le passage d'un cygne (Women at the Edge of the Lake Made Iridescent by the Passage of a Swan), while the other features the Calder piece Constellation with Diabolo.

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Alexander Calder: Un effet du Japonais

Calder: Un effet du japonais, Pace Publishing, 2024

Calder
Un effet du japonais

2024

Text by Alexander S. C. Rower, Susan Braeuer Dam, Marc Glimcher, Jane Hirshfield, Jean McGarry, Stephanie Goto, Akira Tatehata

Hardcover
10 ¾ × 8 ½ inches
184 pages

This new catalogue from Pace Publishing—available in English and Japanese—accompanied Calder: Un effet du japonais, a landmark exhibition of Alexander Calder’s work co-presented by Pace and Azabudai Hills Gallery in Tokyo.

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