Lot 51
  • 51

Alexander Calder

Estimate
180,000 - 220,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Alexander Calder
  • The Nose (Maquette)
  • incised with the artist's monogram
  • sheet metal, wire and paint
  • 12 by 17 by 11 in. 30.5 by 43.2 by 27.9 cm.
  • Executed in 1968, this work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A08831.

Provenance

Private Collection, Stockholm (acquired directly from the artist)
Gimpel and Hanover Gallery, London
Sotheby's, New York, 2 May 1974, Lot 291
Private Collection, New York
Macklowe Gallery, New York
Sotheby's, New York, 12 May 1977, Lot 448
Private Collection, New York
Pace Gallery, New York
Sotheby's, New York, 18 May 1979, Lot 678
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

London, Gimpel Fils, Master Sculptors of the 20th Century, January - March 1973, cat. no. 28, p. 28, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. All of the elements are well intact. Under close inspection, there are some very fine scattered surface scratches. There are a few minor pinpoint pigment losses, particularly at the top point of the work and at a couple of points on the edges, only evident under close inspection. There are signs of light wear and minor pigment loss to the underside of the sculpture.
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Catalogue Note

“In Calder’s hands these technologies transformed art, just as it had transformed the cities that the monumental stabiles would soon inhabit. Among all the great innovations by all the great artists of the first half of the century, this may well have been the one that made abstraction truly modern.” Exh. Cat., New York, Pace Wildenstein, Calder: From Model to Monument, 2006, p. 8