ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
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ID 1492598 
Lot 77  | ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Estimate value
1500000USD $ 1 500 000 – 2 000 000 
Untitled
incised with the artist's initials 'CA' (on the yellow element)
hanging mobile—wood, wire, paint and string
22 x 51 x 3 ½ in. (55.9 x 129.5 x 8.9 cm.)
Executed circa 1938.
Provenance
Private collection, Connecticut, gift of the artist, circa 1941
Private collection, Medford, New Jersey, 1948
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, London, 9 December 1998, lot 13
O’Hara Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2002
Exhibited
Geneva, LS Art, Teneur et Forme, May-June 1999.
New York, O’Hara Gallery, Motion-Emotion: The Art of Alexander Calder, October-December 1999, pp. 18-19 and 95, no. 3 (illustrated).
Munich, Galerie Thomas, Calder and Miró, June-August 2001.
Further Details
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A17735.
| Artist: | Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) | 
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| Art style: | Post War Art | 
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures | 
| Artist: | Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) | 
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| Art style: | Post War Art | 
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures | 
| Address of auction | CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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