Lot 111
  • 111

Alexander Calder

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Alexander Calder
  • Untitled (Orbit of Jupiter)
  • signed and dated 64
  • gouache on paper
  • 29 1/2 by 42 1/2 in.
  • 75 by 107.3 cm.
  • Executed in 1964, this work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York under application number A14211.

Provenance

Collection of the Artist
Nicholas Guppy, London
Obelisk Gallery, Boston

Condition

Not examined out of frame; whole sheet visible. Appears to be mounted to linen backing at all four corners. In good condition aside from slight overall discoloration to sheet and fading to colors. Rippling to sheet. Small indentations to sheet upper left corner. Scattered bumps to edges of sheet including lower right corner. Framed behind scratched plexi.
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