Image: Robert Fontaine Gallery, Palm Beach
Robert Fontaine Gallery has added Alexander Calder's 'Composition V' to its collection listing, presenting the 1976 lithograph in colors as a signed and numbered edition of 100. The work measures 20.8 by 28.4 inches and is priced at $12,000, available upon inquiry. The gallery’s newsletter groups the print with a broad roster of modern and contemporary artists, while Calder’s name is highlighted among works by Josef Albers, Joseph Cornell, Joan Miró, Roy Lichtenstein and others.
The listing appears in Robert Fontaine Gallery’s newsletter, which also points readers toward the gallery’s current exhibition, 'Contemporary Constructs & Modern Memories.' That exhibition is dated March 11 through March 31, 2022, at 256 Worth Avenue in Palm Beach, Florida, and is described by the gallery as bringing together modern and contemporary fine art in a collective showcase. The newsletter identifies the Palm Beach location as the gallery’s outpost, noting a newly expanded exhibition space there.
Within that wider presentation, Calder’s print is one of several canonical postwar works singled out for collectors. The newsletter’s framing places him in a group that also includes Josef Albers, Lee Krasner, Ellsworth Kelly, James Rosenquist, Robert Rauschenberg, Wolf Kahn and Keith Haring, alongside younger artists such as Wolfgang Tillmans, Jonas Wood, Edgar Plans, Lou Ros, Ashley Oubré and Ben Sack. The mix reflects the gallery’s stated interest in connecting historical perspectives with current work, though the email itself does not attribute that curatorial approach to any specific exhibition beyond the Palm Beach show.
'Composition V' is identified more fully as a work from 'The Elementary Memory' ('La mémoire élémentaire'), with lithography in colors on wove paper. The edition details, signed-and-numbered format and mid-1970s date place it among the kind of works that have kept Calder’s paper editions visible in both museum and private collection settings. The newsletter does not provide any interpretive text for the image itself, but its placement in the collection implies the work is being offered as a market object rather than as part of a loan exhibition.
The gallery’s other published work pages reinforce the range of material being handled in its inventory, from modernist editions to contemporary paintings and prints. Elsewhere on the site, Robert Fontaine Gallery lists works by Donald Sultan, Joseph Cornell, Marc Quinn, Josef Albers, Otis Hope Carey, Luke Hein and others, each accompanied by medium, size, edition or signature details. In that context, Calder’s print appears as part of a broader program that spans twentieth-century modern masters and living artists.
For Calder, whose 1970s prints remain active in the market, the listing provides a concise set of collecting facts: title, series, medium, edition size, signature, dimensions and price. Robert Fontaine Gallery gives the work’s dimensions as 20.8 by 28.4 inches and lists the price at $12,000, with availability stated as inquiry only.
