Mercury Fountain
- Author
- Alexander Calder
- Title
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Mercury Fountain
Mercury Fountain
- Date
- 1937
- Medium
- Painted iron and aluminium and mercury
- Sizes
- 114 x 293 x 196 cm
- Credit line
- Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona. Gift of Alexander Calder
- Provenance
- Gift of Alexander Calder
- Register Number
- FJM 10508
- Inscriptions
-
ALMADEN // MERCURE ESPAGNOL D'ALMADEN
- Edition
-
Foundry:
Tallers L. Dalbet, Paris - Remarks
The pond and the water fountain are not original; they were built on the occasion of the Venice Biennale in 1976.
- Bibliography
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- Art revolutionaries: Homage to the Pavilion of the Spanish Republic, 1937. Paris: Mayoral. La Biennale des Antiquaires, 10-18 September 2016 ; Barcelona: Mayoral, 22 September 2016-7 January 2017 ; London: Mayoral, January-February 2017; p. 28-33, 35, 52, 175
- Exhibitions
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- Art revolutionaries: Homage to the Pavilion of the Spanish Republic, 1937. Paris: Mayoral. La Biennale des Antiquaires, 10-18 September 2016 ; Barcelona: Mayoral, 22 September 2016-7 January 2017 ; London: Mayoral, January-February 2017
- Miró i els Estats Units = Miró y los Estados Unidos. = Miró and the United States.. Matthew Gale (ed.) ; Marko Daniel (ed.). Barcelona: Fundació Joan Miró, 10 October 2025-22 February 2026
