Alexander Calder American, 1898-1976
La Mer, 1947
Screenprint on silk
95.5 x 92.5 cm
Artist's signature lower right
Ascher's signature lower left
Ascher's signature lower left
Fabric designer Zika Ascher's relationship with Calder began in 1946, when he wrote to him asking if he would paint a design for the so-called Ascher Artist Squares Collection. During...
Fabric designer Zika Ascher's relationship with Calder began in 1946, when he wrote to him asking if he would paint a design for the so-called Ascher Artist Squares Collection. During their tour of America in November 1947, Ascher visited the Calders at their home in Roxbury, Connecticut. The design Calder created, La Mer, was originally painted and printed in black on white. Calder wrote urging Ascher to experiment with printing it in red and yellow.
Provenance
The Ascher Family CollectionExhibitions
1947, Lefevre Gallery, London
1950, Galerie Doucet, Paris
1975, The Ascher Squares, Neiman Marcus, Dallas
1983, Redfern Gallery
1987, Zika and Lida Ascher: Fabric - Art - Fashion, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1990, Ascher Artists Scarves, Comme de Garçons, Tokyo
2008, Styling the Modern: Fine Art Meets Fashion, Fine Art Centre, Colorado Springs
2014, Designing the Everyday: from Bloomsbury and Ravilious to the present day, Towner Museum, Eastbourne.
Literature
MENDES, Valerie and Frances HINCHCLIFFE. Zika and Lida Ascher: Fabric - Art - Fashion. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1987, ill. p. 65; FERMON, An Jo, Art Goes to Fashion: The Zika Ascher Artist's Squares: London- Paris - New York, 1947, Palm Beach Jewelry and Art show, 2013, ill. p. 30.3
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