
Balancing Act I (A Double-Sided Work)
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July 19, 07:38 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Alexander Calder
1898 - 1976
Balancing Act I (A Double-Sided Work)
signed Calder and dated 1932 (lower right)
ink on paper
21½ by 29¾ in.
54.6 by 75.6 cm.
Executed in 1932.
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A08410.
Jane Davenport Harris Detomasi, New York (a gift of the artist)
Private Collection, New York (by descent from the above)
Sotheby’s, New York, May 11, 1988, lot 166 (consigned by the above)
Perls Galleries, New York (acquired from the above sale)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1996)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
“I think that at that time and practically ever since, the underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.” — Alexander Calder
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