ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)

Lot 513
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Lot 513 | ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Estimate value
$ 400 000 – 600 000
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Black Thing
stabile—sheet metal and paint
31 ¼ x 24 ¼ x 20 ¼ in. (79 x 61.2 x 51 cm.)
Executed in 1941.




Provenance

James Johnson Sweeney, New York, acquired directly from the artist
His sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 10 November 1986, lot 9
Private collection, New York
William Pall Gallery, New York, 1986
Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York
Private collection, Boca Raton, 1987
By descent from the above to the present owner, 2014



Literature

A. Rindge Claflin and H. Matter, Alexander Calder: Sculpture and Constructions, 1944 (video; featured).
J. J. Sweeney, Alexander Calder, New York, 1951, p. 54 (illustrated).
“At Home with Alexander Calder,” Upstate Diary, no. 2, 21 April 2016 (illustrated on interior back cover).
Alexander Calder & Fischli/Weiss, exh. cat., Basel, Fondation Beyeler, 2016, pp. 200-201 (illustrated).
J. Perl, Calder: The Conquest of Space: The Later Years: 1940-1976, New York, 2020, p. 106 (illustrated).
Calder Now, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Rotterdam, 2021, p. 177 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Los Angeles, Design Project, Calder: Mobiles, Stabiles, Jewelry / A Few Paintings by Paul Klee, September-October 1941.
San Francisco Museum of Art, Mobiles by Alexander Calder, Stabiles and Jewelry, November 1941.
The Arts Club of Chicago, Nine American Artists, February 1942, n.p., no. 1.
Cincinnati Art Museum, Paintings by Paul Klee and Mobiles and Stabiles by Alexander Calder, April-May 1942, p. 8, no. 1 (illustrated).
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Calder: Recent Work, May-June 1942.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Alexander Calder: Sculptures and Constructions, September 1943-January 1944, pp. 49 and 59, no. 80 (illustrated).
Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Calder, December 1950-January 1951.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, April-September 1953, p. 41, no. 18.
London, Tate Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, Alexander Calder: Sculpture-Mobiles, July-August 1962, n.p., no. 27.



Further details

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A00515.
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