ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
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ID 1508299
Lot 511 | ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Estimate value
500000USD $ 500 000 – 700 000
Untitled
standing mobile—sheet metal, wire, string and paint
18 ¾ x 22 x 6 in. (47.6 x 55.9 x 15.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1945.
Provenance
Buchholz Gallery, New York and Curt Valentin, New York, acquired directly from the artist
Alexander Smith Cochran, Baltimore, 1950
Private collection, California, 1995
Anon. sale; Butterfields, Los Angeles, 12 December 2000, lot 112
Galerie Nathalie Seroussi, Paris
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York
Russeck Gallery, Palm Beach
James Goodman Gallery, New York
Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York
Rita Krauss Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2004
Literature
“Calder,” Art and Architecture, vol. 64, no. 10, October 1947, p. 34 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Munich, Galerie Thomas, Calder and Miró, June-August 2001.
Santa Fe, Gerald Peters Gallery and Dallas, Gerald Peters Gallery, The Whimsical World of Alexander Calder, July-October 2003.
Further details
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A15323.
| 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 |
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