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Property from a Private Collection, Colorado

Alexander Calder

Eye Glasses

Lot Closed

December 18, 07:19 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Colorado

Alexander Calder

1898 - 1976

Eye Glasses


sheet metal and wire

4½ by 8 by 5½ in. (11.4 by 20.3 by 13.9 cm.)

Executed circa 1950.


This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A04423.

Estate of John Rawlings, New York (gift of the artist circa 1950)
Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, May 13, 1981, lot 242 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Calder Intime, 1989, p. 16, illustrated in black and white (exhibition catalogue)