ID 921448
Lot 17 | ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Estimate value
$ 5 000 000 – 7 000 000
Black Disc with Flags
sheet metal, wire and paint
72 x 92 x 24 in. (182.9 x 233.7 x 61 cm.)
Executed circa 1939.
Provenance
Estate of the artist
L&M Arts, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Calder in Brazil, exh. cat., Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 2006, p. 63 (illustrated).
Calder's Portraits: A New Language, exh. cat., Washington, D.C., National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, 2011, fig. 18, p. 24 (illustrated).
Alexander Calder: De grote ontdekking, exh. cat., The Netherlands, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 2012, fig. 60, p. 28 (illustrated).
A. Rower, ed., Calder By Matter, Paris, 2013, p. 113 (illustrated).
Calder, exh. cat., Seoul, Samsung Museum of Art, 2013, p. 107 (illustrated).
Alexander Calder: Avant-Garde in Motion, exh. cat., Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 2013, p. 132 (illustrated).
A. Rower, ed., "Calder in France," Cahiers d'Art, no. 1, 2015, p. 95 (illustrated).
J. Perl, Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940, New York, 2017, p. 601 (illustrated).
Calder/Miró: Chronology and Correspondence, exh. cat., New York, Pace Gallery and Acquavella Galleries, fig. 42, p. 55 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Arts and Crafts Club of New Orleans, Alexander Calder: Mobiles / Jewelry and Fernand Léger: Gouaches / Drawings, March-April 1941.
New York, L&M Arts, Tanguy Calder: Between Surrealism and Abstraction, April-July 2010, pp. 66-67 and 170 (illustrated).
Post lot text
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A20619.
| Artist: | Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Artist: | Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
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