Tapestry designed by Alexander Calder celebrating the Bicentennial of America. Woven at the Atelier Pinton, Signed, verso, Number 38 of 200

Made in France, circa 1976

Alexander Calder (1898-1976) an American sculptor best known for his mobiles, a type of kinetic sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended components which moves in response to air currents. “Sublimation of a tree in the wind” would later say his friend Marcel Duchamp. Tapestry from Aubusson in wool, hand woven Signed by the artist at the back