ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
20.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1508444
Lot 504 | ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Estimate value
25000USD $ 25 000 – 35 000
The Lion Tamer
signed and dated 'Calder 1932' (lower right)
ink on paper
22 ½ x 30 ½ in. (57.2 x 77.5 cm.)
Executed in 1932.
Provenance
Perls Galleries, New York
Mrs. Samuel Ungerleider, Jr., New York
Private collection, Larchmont, New York
Anon. sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 16 November 1995, lot 239
Spanierman Gallery, New York, 1995
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2001
Exhibited
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Alexander Calder: Circus Drawings, Wire Sculpture and Toys, November-December 1964, p. 16, no. 25.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Calder’s Circus, April-June 1972, p. 3, no. 12.
Further Details
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A14980.
| Artist: | Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
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