ID 1336243
Lot 48 | ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Estimate value
$ 2 500 000 – 3 500 000
Blue Among Yellow and Red
incised with the artist’s monogram and date ‘CA 63’ (on the largest red element)
sheet metal, wire and paint
42 x 60 in. (106.7 x 152.4 cm.)
Executed in 1963.
Provenance
Perls Galleries, New York
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1967
Literature
“Art: Sculpture,” Time, vol. 84, no. 21, 20 November 1964, p. 98 (illustrated).
Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013, p. 195 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; St. Louis, Washington University Gallery of Art; Art Gallery of Toronto and Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, November 1964-October 1965, n.p., no. 176.
Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, Alexander Calder, April-May 1966, n.p., no. 9.
The Arts Club of Chicago, Aubusson Tapestries by Alexander Calder, November-December 1972, p. 2, no. 25.
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Alexander Calder from the Collection of the Ruth and Leonard J. Horwich Family, November 1992-January 1993, pp. 12-13 and 22, no. 15 (illustrated).
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 1996-2024 (extended loan).
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Alexander Calder in Focus, December 2000-August 2001.
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, June-October 2010, pp. 144 and 174, pl. 59 (illustrated).
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, NCA DNA: Alexander Calder, October 2013-August 2015.
Further Details
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A03756.
| Artist: | Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
| Artist: | Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
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