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ALEXANDER CALDER Fish (Flying Colors).
Color lithograph on Arches, 1975. 605x875 mm; 24x34½ inches (sheet), full margins. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 100. Signed and inscribed "E.A." in pencil, lower right. Printed by Arts Litho, Paris. Co-published by George J. Goodstadt, Inc., Connecticut, and Braniff Airways, Dallas, for the Flying Colors campaign, with the blind stamp lower right. A very good impression with strong colors.
Calder (1898-1976) collaborated with Braniff Airways, 1973-75, to design "Flying Colors" jet canvases for the airlines Boeing 727 fleet. Calder painted maquettes or smaller-scale airplane model designs and some of these designs were used for limited edition color lithographs to commemorate the project, culminating in the July 4, 1976, bicentennial celebration which included the "Flying Colors" of the United States.
