Art as Jewelry as Art
Art as Jewelry as Art
Property of a Private Collector
Alexander Calder
Brooch
Lot Closed
October 6, 04:03 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Alexander Calder
1898 - 1976
Spiral Brooch
brass and steel wire
4½ by 6½ in.
11.4 by 16.5 cm.
Executed circa 1940.
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under the number A16866.
Perls Galleries, New York
Frances J. Whitney, New York (acquired from the above)
Sotheby’s, New York, November 15, 2006, lot 211 (consigned by the above)
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale
Gualtieri Di San Lazzaro, ed., "Homage à Alexander Calder" XXe Siècle Review (special issue), Paris, 1972, p. 93, illustrated (in group photo)
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs; Mexico City, El Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo; New York, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution; Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Calder Intime, February 1989 - August 1990, p. 302, illustrated in color
Louisa Guinness, Art as Jewelry: From Calder to Kapoor, London, 2018, p. 78, illustrated