SM brooch, 1938.
Brass and steel wire. Unsigned. Dimensions 13.3 cm × 9.5 cm. This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation New York, under application number A31081.
Wear and marks due to age and use. Tarnished.
Provenance
Gift from the artist to Eino and Sirkka Mäkinen in Helsinki 1938. Thence by descent to current owner Risto Lamminpää in 1993.
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Eino Mäkinen (1908–1987) was a Finnish photographer, cinematographer, director, and screenwriter. He worked closely with architect Alvar Aalto and gained international recognition for his photography. Mäkinen was also a shareholder of Artek Oy.
Mäkinen’s work was closely connected to Finland’s presence at major international exhibitions and world fairs. His photographs were awarded gold medals in the Finnish pavilions at the World’s Fairs in Brussels (1935), Paris (1937), and New York (1939). In 1938, Artek hosted an exhibition of jewelry by Alexander Calder, alongside a display of Eino Mäkinen’s photographs. The following year, his photographs were exhibited at the New York World’s Fair, which he also visited to document the Finnish Pavilion.
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Alexander Calder was an American Sculptor and artist born in Philadelphia. He initially studied mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, but later changed to study at the Art Students League in New York and at Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. When Calder visited Piet Mondrian’s studio in Paris, the artist felt immense inspiration, facilitating the creation of his abstract art and his joining of the group "Abstraction-Création". He is well known for his Chinese sculptures, and artworks Marcel Duchamp dubbed as “mobiles”. As well as sculptures, Calder also illustratedbooks and magazines at the same time as he also made jewellery. Calder explored the dynamics of movement in his art, diverging from the traditional notion of artworks as static objects.
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