Lot 70
  • 70

Alexander Calder

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Alexander Calder
  • Small Blue Spot
  • signed
  • gouache and India ink in paper
  • 21 7/8 by 29 3/4 in.
  • 55.5 by 75.5 cm.
  • Executed circa 1953, this work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York under application number A14358.

Provenance

Nicholas Guppy, London
Selected Artists Galleries, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above, 1969

Condition

Attached to window mat with brown paper adhesive tape straight across the top of the sheet. Earlier tape remnants verso. Soft handling creases. Sheet has machine cut edges.
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