ID 1380935
Los 30 | ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Schätzwert
£ 1 500 000 – 2 500 000
Untitled
incised with the artist's monogram 'CA' (on the largest element)
hanging mobile—sheet metal, wire and paint
21 ¼ x 39 x 17 ½in. (54 x 99 x 44.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1947
Provenance
Frederick D. Brown Collection, St. Croix.
Private Collection.
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 16 November 1995, lot 250.
Private Collection, Aspen.
Anon. sale, Christie’s New York, 14 November 2012, lot 68.
Ruth O’Hara Fine Art, New York.
Venus Over Manhattan, New York.
Private Collection, Beverly Hills.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2017.
Literature
Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1964 (studio view illustrated, p. 20).
A. Calder and J. Davidson, Calder, an Autobiography with Pictures, New York 1966 (studio view illustrated, p. 172).
H. H. Arnason, Calder, New York 1971 (studio view illustrated, p. 18).
J. Lipman, Calder’s Universe, New York 1976 (studio view illustrated, pp. 22-23).
Alexander Calder: Selected Works 1932-1972, exh. cat., New York, O'Hara Gallery, 1994 (studio view illustrated on the front cover).
P. E. Guerrero, Calder at Home: The Joyous Environment of Alexander Calder, New York 1998 (illustrated in colour, p. 9; studio view illustrated in colour, pp. 28-29).
Motion-Emotion: The Art of Alexander Calder, exh. cat., New York, O'Hara Gallery 1999 (studio view illustrated in colour, pp. 82-83).
Calder: Gravity and Grace, exh. cat., Bilbao, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, 2003 (studio view illustrated, pp. 40 and 102).
P. E. Guerrero, A Photographer’s Journey, New York 2007 (studio view illustrated, pp. 176-177).
Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor, exh. cat., Montreal, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2018-2019 (studio view illustrated in colour, p. 4).
Exhibited
New York, James Goodman Gallery, Calder: Space in Play, 2014.
Further Details
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A13320.
| Künstler: | Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) |
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| Kunst Stil: | Nachkriegskunst |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Skulpturen, Statuen & Figuren |
| Künstler: | Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) |
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| Kunst Stil: | Nachkriegskunst |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Skulpturen, Statuen & Figuren |
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