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ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)

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£ 3 162 000
Auction dateClassic
28.06.2022 14:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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ID 792331
Lot 57 | ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)

Red, White, and Blacks

signed with the artist’s monogram and dated '57' (on the largest white element)

hanging mobile-sheet metal, wire and paint

43 x 81 x 11in. (109.2 x 205.7 x 27.9cm.)

Executed in 1957





Provenance

Perls Galleries, New York.

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1961.



Literature

J. Canaday, 'Calder and Miro' in The New York Times, February 1961 (illustrated, p. 19).

'The Biggest Calder in the Country', in Scholastic News Time, October 1969 (illustrated, p. 9).

Calder / Miro: Chronology and Correspondence, exh cat., New York, Pace Gallery, 2017 (illustrated, p. 115).



Exhibited

New York, Perls Galleries, Alexander Calder / Joan Miro, 1961, p. 12, no. 8 (illustrated, p. 1).



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This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A07337.
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