ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)

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ID 1492597
Los 28 | ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
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ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Painted Wood
hanging mobile—wood, string, wire and paint
78 x 74 ½ x 4 ½ in. (198.1 x 189.2 x 11.5 cm.)
Executed in 1943.




Provenance

Henrique Mindlin, Rio de Janeiro, gift of the artist
His sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 5 May 1986, lot 28
Private collection
International Art Center, London, 1989
Galeria Theo, Madrid, 1989
Pace Gallery, New York, 1989
Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York & Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich, 1992
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1993



Literature

A. R. Claflin, Alexander Calder: Sculpture and Constructions, 1944 (film).
J. Baal-Teshuva, Alexander Calder, Cologne, 1998, p. 48 (illustrated; titled and undated Untitled).
Calder in Brazil, exh. cat., Pinacoteca de Estado de São Paulo, 2006, pp. 68-69, 73, 80-81 and 106-107 (illustrated; dated circa 1947).
Calder After the War, exh. cat., Pace London, 2013, p. 115 (illustrated in situ).
Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013, pp. 122 and 173, fig. 2 (illustrated in situ).
G. Ferreira and P. Herkenhoff, eds., Mário Pedrosa: Primary Documents, New York, 2015, p. 25 (ilustrated in situ).
Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture, exh. cat., London, Tate Modern, 2015, p. 26 (illustrated in situ).
Alexander Calder & Fischli/Weiss, exh. cat., Riehen/Basel, Fondation Beyeler, 2016, p. 177, fig. 11 (illustrated in situ).
Calder/Miró: Chronology and Correspondence, exh. cat., New York, Pace Gallery and Acquavella Galleries Inc., 2017, p. 73, fig. 54 (illustrated in situ).
Calder and Brazilian Art, exh. cat., São Paulo, Itaú Cultural, 2018, pp. 42 and 215 (illustrated in situ).
Alexander Calder: Modern from the Start, exh. cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2021, p. 28, fig. 22 (illustrated in situ).
Calder Now, exh. cat., Kunsthal Rotterdam, 2021, p. 177 (illustrated in situ).



Exhibited

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Alexander Calder: Sculptures and Constructions, September 1943-January 1944.
Rio de Janeiro, Ministério da Educação e Saúde and São Paulo, Museu de Arte, Alexander Calder, September-November 1948.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Alexander Calder: 1898-1976, March-December 1998, p. 251, no. 204 (illustrated; titled and dated Untitled, circa 1947).
New York, Pace Gallery, Calder: Constellations, April-June 2017, pp. 16-17, 44-45 and 114, figs. 17 and 18, pl. 32 (illustrated and illustrated in situ).



Further Details

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A09629.
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