Lot 64
  • 64

ALEXANDER CALDER | Rabbit Brooch

Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 USD
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Description

  • Alexander Calder
  • Rabbit Brooch
  • silver with steel wire
  • 5 1/8 by 3 7/8 by 1/2 in. 13 by 9.7 by 1.2 cm.
  • Executed circa 1950, this work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York under application number A12220.

Provenance

Private Collection, New York (gift of the artist)
Private Collection, New York
Howard Russeck Fine Art, Ambler, Pennsylvania
O'Hara Gallery, New York 
AD Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, O'Hara Gallery, Alexander Calder: Selected Works 1932-1972, October - December 1994, p. 29, illustrated in color 
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Calder in Connecticut, April - August 2000, cat. no. 88, fig. 64, pp. 66-67, illustrated
West Palm Beach, Norton Museum; Philadelphia Museum of Art; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Calder Jewelry, February 2008 - March 2009, pp. 91, 268-269, illustrated

Literature

Margaret Calder Hayes, Three Alexander Calders, New York 1987, p. 274, illustrated
Mark Rosenthal, Jane Adlin and Alexander S. Rower, Eds., Calder Jewelry, New York 2007, p. 91, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The surface variations are consistent with the artist's choice of medium and working method. Under very close inspection, there are a few, scattered minor surface scratches and a few, scattered pinpoints of pitting, particularly to the rabbit's left ear, which is to be expected of a wearable work from this period. There is evidence of very minor, scattered oxidation to the steel wire.
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