Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Alexander Calder
A Two-Faced Guy (Maquette)
Auction Closed
March 3, 05:01 PM GMT
Estimate
140,000 - 200,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Alexander Calder
1898 - 1976
Maquette for 'A Two-Faced Guy'
incised with the artist's monogram on the black element
sheet metal, wire and paint
sculpture: 21 by 21.9 by 15.9 cm. 8¼ by 8⅝ by 6¼ in.
base: 15.2 by 15.2 by 4.1 cm. 6 by 6 by 1⅝ in.
Executed circa 1964.
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A08291.
Perls Galleries, New York
Richard and Dorothy Rodgers, New York
Thence by descent to the present owner in 1992
Hjorvardur Harvard Arnason and Pedro E. Guerrero, Calder, New York 1966, p. 108, illustrated (the present work in progress at the artist’s studio in Roxbury, Connecticut)
Exh. Cat., Bilbao, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Calder: Gravity and Grace, 2003, p. 64, illustrated (the present work in progress at the artist’s studio in Roxbury, Connecticut)
Exh. Cat., The Hague, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Alexander Calder: De grote ontdekking, 2012, p. 235, illustrated (the present work in progress at the artist’s studio in Roxbury, Connecticut)
Exh. Cat., New York, Di Donna, The Life of Forms, 2018, pp. 50-51, illustrated (the present work in progress at the artist’s studio in Roxbury, Connecticut)