ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)

Lot 48
11.05.2023 07:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 4 000 000
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Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 949526
Lot 48 | ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Estimate value
$ 4 000 000 – 6 000 000
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)

The Moon and The Loop

incised with the artist's monogram 'CA' (on the largest red element)

sheet metal, wire and paint

46 x 57 in. (116.8 x 144.8 cm.)

Executed in 1953.





Provenance

Perls Galleries, New York

Selden Rodman, Princeton

Weintraub Gallery, New York

Private collection, New York, 1967

By descent from the above to the present owner, 2013



Literature

P. E. Guerrero, A Photographer's Journey with Frank Lloyd Wright, Alexander Calder, and Louise Nevelson, New York, 2007, pp. 94-95 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Sixty Years of Living Architecture: The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright, October-December 1953.



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This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A07327.
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