ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)

Lot 68
12.05.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 5 000 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1423001
Lot 68 | ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Estimate value
$ 5 000 000 – 7 000 000
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Big Horizontal Red
incised with the artist's monogram and date 'CA 56' (on the largest element)
sheet metal, wire and paint
15 x 125 x 28 in. (38.1 x 317.5 x 71.1 cm.)
Executed in 1956.




Provenance

Perls Galleries, New York
Private collection
Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and Research, Houston, 1961, gift of the above
Their sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 6 May 1997, lot 18
Private collection, New York
By descent from the above to the present owner



Literature

“Mobile Part of Hospital Therapy,” Houston Post, 29 November 1961, n.p. (illustrated).



Further Details

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A07586.
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