Lot 111
  • 111

Alexander Calder

Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 USD
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Description

  • Alexander Calder
  • Le Cheval II (Horse II)
  • incised with the artist's monogram on the rear right leg; numbered 21 on the underside of the front left leg
  • bronze
  • 4 1/2 by 8 1/4 by 4 3/4 in. 11.5 by 21 by 12 cm.
  • Executed in 1964, this work is number 21 from an edition of 50, and is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A00861.21.

Provenance

Documenta Foundation, Kassel
Sotheby's, London, June 23, 1966, lot 7
Brook Street Gallery, London
Christie's, London, June 6, 2003, lot 68
Private Collection, United Kingdom
Sotheby's, London, February 8, 2007, lot 387
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Literature

Documenta Foundation, Kassel, 1968, p. 2, illustrated
Daniel Marchesseau, Calder Intime, Paris, 1989, p. 182, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Calder, 1997, no. 41, p. 76, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. There is scattered rubbing to the patina throughout, as well as evidence of dust accretions in the crevices. There is also minor evidence of oxidation.
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