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The Big Sail

The Big Sail
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La Grande Voile (The Big Sail), sometimes translated The Great Sail, is a 1965 painted steel sculpture by Alexander Calder, installed in McDermott Court on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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