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ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)

Lot 171
27.02.2025 12:00UTC -05:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 100 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1380806
Lot 171 | ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 150 000
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Tiara
brass wire
3 x 6 ½ x 7 in. (7.6 x 16.5 x 17.8 cm.)
Executed circa 1937.




Provenance

Mayor Gallery, London, acquired directly from the artist
Lord and Lady Kenneth Clark, Kent, England, 1938
Fréderic Armand-Dellile, France, by descent from the above, circa 1983
Private collection, New York, 1997
Anon. sale; Christie’s, New York, 21 October 2009, lot 1116
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner



Literature

P. Proddow and M. Fasel, Bejeweled: Great Designers, Celebrity Style, New York, 2001, pp. 82-83 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs; Mexico City, El Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo; New York, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution and Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Calder Intime, February 1989-August 1990, p. 302 (illustrated).
New York, American Folk Art Museum; London, Summerset House; Paris, Musée Carnavalet and Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Masterpieces of American Jewelry, August 2004-January 2008, p. 84 (illustrated).



Further details

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under the number A16409.
Artist:Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976)
Art style:Post War Art
Auction house category:Jewelry
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