ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)

Lot 41
12.05.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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Starting price
$ 6 000 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1422989
Lot 41 | ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Estimate value
$ 6 000 000 – 8 000 000
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Gypsophila
incised with the artist's monogram 'CA' (on the largest element)
sheet metal, wire and paint
53 x 48 x 15 in. (134.6 x 121.9 x 38.1 cm.)
Executed in 1949.




Provenance

Private collection
Perls Galleries, New York, circa 1967
Acquired from the above by Anne H. and Sid R. Bass, 1968



Exhibited

New York, Buchholz Gallery, Calder, November-December 1949, p. 6, no. 8 (illustrated as a drawing).
New York, Perls Galleries, 24 Major Acquisitions, February-April 1968, p. 7, no. 6 (illustrated).
Fort Worth Art Museum, Twentieth Century Art from Fort Worth Dallas Collections, September-October 1974, p. 35.



Further Details

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A07525.
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