ALEXANDER CALDER | Silver Web

Perls Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1970

Greenwich, Bruce Museum, The Mobile, The Stabile, The Animal: Wit in the Art of Alexander Calder, September - December 1995, cat. no. 4, p. 36, illustrated

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. There is minor evidence of oxidation in the joints, inherent to the artist's chosen medium and process. Under raking light, minor and unobtrusive surface scratches are visible.
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This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A16646.