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ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)

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Lot 497 | ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)Mushroom Has Red Facestanding mobile—sheet metal, rod, wire and paint32 3⁄8 x 24 1⁄2 x 20 1⁄2 in. (82.2 x 62.2 x 52.1 cm.)Executed in 1949. Provenance Estate of the artistPace Gallery, New York, 1982Private collection, 1985Waddington Galleries, LondonAcquired from the above by the present owner, 1993 Literature J. J. Sweeney, Alexander Calder, New York, 1951, p. 65 (illustrated in its original form).F. Jotterand, "Alexandre Calder ou la sculpture en mouvement", France Illustration, no. 416, November 1954, p. 67 (illustrated).G. Carandente, Calder: Mobiles and Stabiles, New York and Toronto, 1968, p. 35, pl. 5 (illustrated in its current form).A. Calder, J. J. Sweeney and D. Lelong, Calder: l'Artiste et l'Oeuvre, Paris, 1971, pp. 45 and 132 (illustrated).G. di San Lazzaro, ed., "Homage to Alexander Calder", XXe siècle Review, Paris, 1972, p. 88 (illustrated).M. Bruzeau, Calder à Saché, Paris, 1975, p. 31, pl. 37 (illustrated). Exhibited New York, Buchholz Gallery / Curt Valentin, Calder, November-December 1949, p. 7, no. 11. (exhibited in its original form)Paris, Galerie Maeght, Calder: Mobiles & Stabiles, June-July 1950, no. 38.Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Alexander Calder, October-November 1950, no. 30.Stockholm, Galerie Blanche, Alexander Calder: Mobiles and Stabiles, December 1950, no. 30.London, The Lefevre Gallery, Mobiles and Stabiles by Alexander Calder, January 1951, p. 5, no. 27.Vienna, Neue Galerie, Alexander Calder, May-June 1951, p. 7, no. 27. Hanover, Kestnergesellschaft, Alexander Calder: Stabiles, Mobiles, Gouachen, March-May 1954, p. 12, no. 9.Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Alexander Calder, May-July 1967, p. 48, no. 47.Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Calder, April-May 1969, p. 69, no. 95 (illustrated and exhibited in its current form).Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Art, Calder, June-September 1969, no. 83 (illustrated on the back cover).Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Calder, October-November 1969, p. 40, no. 64. New York, Pace Gallery, Calder's Calders, May-June 1985, p. 26 (illustrated). Post lot text This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A07377.
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