PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FAMILY
Alexander Calder
NECKLACE
LOT SOLD.
312,500 USD
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Alexander Calder
1898 - 1976
NECKLACE
gold wire and string
9 by 9 in. 22.9 by 22.9 cm.
Executed in 1946.
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9 by 9 in. 22.9 by 22.9 cm.
Executed in 1946.
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A16707.
Provenance
Collection of Keith and Edna Warner, Gloversville (acquired directly from the artist)
Sotheby's, New York, 21 May 1981, Lot 706
Private Collection, Los Angeles (acquired from the above sale)
Thence by descent to the present owner in 2004
Sotheby's, New York, 21 May 1981, Lot 706
Private Collection, Los Angeles (acquired from the above sale)
Thence by descent to the present owner in 2004
Catalogue Note
"Calder’s jewelry may be seen as a sort of Surrealistic strategy to entrap the wearer into participating in an art performance, even to become bewitched. To wear the jewelry is to induce dreams and to become metamorphosed. It is typical of Calder and his art to be more allusive than first meets the eye.”
Mark Rosenthal in Alexander S.C. Rower, Ed., Calder Jewelry, New York 2007, p. 67
Mark Rosenthal in Alexander S.C. Rower, Ed., Calder Jewelry, New York 2007, p. 67
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