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Property from a Private Collection, California

Alexander Calder

Untitled

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November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, California

Alexander Calder

1898 - 1976


Untitled

signed with the artist's monogram and dated 63 (lower right)

oil on canvas

45 ½ by 35 in.

115.6 by 88.9 cm.

Executed in 1963.


This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A04815.

Please refer to Sothebys.com for updated symbols for this lot.
Nicholas Guppy, London (acquired as a gift directly from the artist circa 1964)
Sotheby’s London, 20 May 1987, lot 358 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above) 
Sotheby’s New York, 18 November 1999, lot 358 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner 
Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, Calder, July - August 1980, no. 25          
Nicholas Guppy, "Alexander Calder," Atlantic Monthly, vol. 214, no. 6, December 1964, p. 58, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Calder, 1965, p. 49, illustrated
Celina Luz, "Movimento em Tôrno de Calder," Jornal do Brasil, Sexta-Fiera, 6 July 1965, illustrated
Alexander Calder, Calder: An Autobiography with Pictures, New York, 1966. p. 266, illustrated
Jacob Baal-Teshuva, Alexander Calder, Cologne, 1998, p. 43, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Fundación del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Calder: Gravity and Grace, 2003, p. 81, illustrated
Riccardo Venturi, Ed., Alexander Calder: Scritti e Conversazioni, Milan, 2009, p. 109, illustrated
New York, Helly Nahmad Gallery, Alexander Calder: The Painter, 2011, p. 1, illustrated
Exh. Cat., London, Pace Gallery, The Calder Prize 2005–2015, 2016, p. 4 illustrated
São Paulo, Itaú Cultural, Calder and Brazilian Art, 2018, pp. 2–3, illustrated