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Alexander Calder
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
Sold
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Description
- Alexander Calder
- Petit Rouge en Bas
- incised with the artist's monogram on the base
- painted metal and wire
- 6 1/2 by 6 1/8 by 2 3/4 in. 16.5 by 15.5 by 7 cm.
- Executed in 1972.
Provenance
Daniel Lelong, Paris (gift of the artist)
Artcurial, Paris, 3 June 2013, Lot 31
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Artcurial, Paris, 3 June 2013, Lot 31
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Exhibited
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Calder Intime, February - May 1989, p. 197, illustrated in color
Mexico City, Fundación Jumex, Calder: Discipline of the Dance, March - June 2015
Mexico City, Fundación Jumex, Calder: Discipline of the Dance, March - June 2015
Literature
Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs (and traveling), Calder Intimé, 1989-1990, p. 197, illustrated in color
Catalogue Note
"Why must sculpture be static? You look at abstraction, sculpted 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