ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)

Lot 37
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$ 3 000 000
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Lot 37 | ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
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$ 3 000 000 – 5 000 000
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Calder, A.
Crossed Blades (intermediate maquette)
sheet metal and paint
85 x 77 x 73 in. (215.9 x 195.6 x 185.4 cm.)
Executed in 1967.




Provenance

Estate of the artist
The Pace Gallery, New York, 1990
Chalk & Vermilion Fine Arts, Greenwich, 1990
LS Art, Geneva
Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, 2000
James Goodman Gallery, New York, 2002
Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, 2002
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2002



Literature

B. Mancewicz, "Sculptor Calder Is Warm, Unpretentious," Grand Rapids Press, 30 June 1968, p. 63 (illustrated).
B. Mancewicz, Alexander Calder. A Pictorial Essay, Grand Rapids, 1969, p. 22 (illustrated).
W. Helwig, "Calders Werkstatt-Mühle," Rheinische Post, 8 March 1969, p. 106 (illustrated).
H. H. Arnason and U. Mulas, Calder, New York, 1971, pp. 70-71 (illustrated).
Calder's Universe, exh. cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1976, p. 309 (illustrated).
Calder ou l'équilibre poétique, exh. cat., Paris, Hôtel Dassault, 2005, p. 10 (illustrated).
50 Years at Pace, exh. cat., New York, Pace Gallery, 2010, p. 118 (illustrated).
The Calder Prize 2005-2015, exh. cat., London, Pace Gallery, 2016, p. 9 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Pace Gallery, Calder's Calders, May-June 1985.
New York, Pace Gallery, Calder: Stabiles, May-June 1989, p. 17 (illustrated; titled Stabile).
Greenwich, Bruce Museum, The Mobile, the Stabile, the Animal: Wit in the Art of Alexander Calder, September-December 1995, pp. 14 and 42 (illustrated).



Further Details

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A03005.
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