ALEXANDER CALDER | Necklace

Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist in 1937)
Thence by descent to the present owner in 2005

Cincinnati, Taft Museum of Art, Alexander Calder: Early Works, circa 1927-1944, December 1971 - January 1972, p. 7, illustrated 

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. Under very close inspection and extreme raking light, minor and unobtrusive surface scratches are visible. Under further close inspection there is minor evidence of oxidation visible, particularly at the joints.
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"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