Lot 38
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ALEXANDER CALDER | Black, White and Red Sails

Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 USD
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Description

  • Alexander Calder
  • Black, White and Red Sails
  • incised with the artist's monogram and date 75
  • sheet metal, wire and paint
  • 18 1/2 by 16 by 17 in. 47 by 40.6 by 43.2 cm.
  • Executed in 1975, this work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A08200.

Provenance

Perls Galleries, New York
William and Helen Mazer, New York
Christie's, Los Angeles, 9 June 1999, Lot 117
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Hong Kong, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Alexander Calder: Sculpture, Works on Paper and Jewelry; February - April 2013

Catalogue Note

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