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Alexander Calder’s Horizontal Permanently Installed in Front of Centre Pompidou

NEW YORK, NY.- The Calder Foundation announced the permanent installation of Calder’s 1974 monumental standing mobile Horizontal in front of the Centre Pompidou’s iconic façade. The placement of the sculpture on the museum’s beloved plaza was determined in accordance with architect Renzo Piano. The 8-meter sculpture, which had been in storage following its last exhibition in Bonn in 1993, recently underwent extensive restoration with the collaboration of the the Calder Foundation and the sponsorship of KPMG France. The Centre Pompidou possesses one of the largest public holdings of Calder’s work, thanks to a gift of thirty works made to the institution by the artist during his lifetime in 1966 and a subsequent donation of an additional eight by the artist’s estate in 1983, including Horizontal. Alexander S.C. Rower, President of the Calder Foundation and Calder’s grandson, explains, “France