Lot 153
  • 153

ALEXANDER CALDER | National Gallery III [maquette]

Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 USD
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Description

  • Alexander Calder
  • National Gallery III [maquette]
  • sheet metal, wire and paint
  • 9 by 22 by 4 1/2 in. 22.9 by 55.9 by 11.4 cm.
  • Executed in 1972.

Provenance

Collection of Cameron Segretario, Connecticut (gift of the artist)
Private Collection, Connecticut (by descent from the above)
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2008)
PaceWildenstein, New York (acquired from the above in 2009)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in November 2009

Literature

Galerie Gmurzynska, Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich 2008, pp. 76-77, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The elements move smoothly and freely. The colors are bright, fresh and clean. There is evidence of very minor wear and handling visible along the edges of the forms and connecting wire, including unobtrusive surface abrasions and some extremely minor pinpoint losses on a few of the forms. The top of the horizontal red element is stained, likely inherent from the time of execution.
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Catalogue Note

“Why must art be static?...You look at an abstraction, sculpted or painted, an intensely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.”
Alexander Calder

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A23205.