ID 908027
Lot 36 | ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Estimate value
£ 800 000 – 1 200 000
The Ghost
sheet metal, wire and paint
16 3/4 x 9 3/4 x 6in. (42.5 x 24.8 x 15.2cm.)
Executed in 1945
Provenance
Galerie Louis Carré, Paris.
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern.
Private Collection, Bern (acquired from the above in 1947).
Thence by descent to the present owner in 1976.
Literature
Calder After the War, exh. cat., London, Pace Gallery, 2013 (illustrated, p. 142).
Alexander Calder: Multum in Parvo, exh. cat., New York, Dominique Levy Gallery, 2015 (illustrated, p. 16).
Alexander Calder: Minimal / Maximal, exh. cat., Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, 2021, no. 38 (illustrated, p. 77).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, Alexander Calder: Mobiles, Stabiles, Constellations, 1946.
Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Calder, Léger, Bodmer, Leuppi, 1947, p. 5, no. 52.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Alexander Calder / Fernand Léger, 1947, p. 6, no. 52.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Elan vital oder Das Auge Der Eros: Kandinsky, Klee, Arp, Miro, Calder, 1994, p. 553, no. 187 (illustrated in color, pl. 443).
Special Notice
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Post Lot Text
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A14659.
| Artist: | Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
| Artist: | Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
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