ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)

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Lot 601 | ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
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$ 300 000 – 500 000
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Untitled
standing mobile—sheet metal, brass, wire and paint
9 ¼ x 9 x 2 ¼ in. (23.1 x 22.9 x 5.3 cm.)
Executed circa 1947.




Provenance

Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, acquired directly from the artist
Rosamond Bernier, New York, 1947
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, 2000
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2000



Literature

A. Putman, “L’Oeil du décorateur vous montre quelques exemples d’associations d’objets rares, insolites ou précieux,” L’Œil, no. 72, December 1960, p. 97 (illustrated).
V. Darré, “Natures mortes, hommage au Andrée Putman: Compositions originales extraites de L’Oeil no. 72, ”
L'Officiel, no. 979, December 1960, p. 138 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Calder and Miró, June–September 1998, pp. 33 and 77 (illustrated).



Further details

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A19064.
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