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Alexander Calder
Long Yellow Legs
Auction Closed
May 17, 10:38 PM GMT
Estimate
800,000 - 1,200,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Alexander Calder
1898 - 1976
Long Yellow Legs
incised with the artist's monogram (on the white element)
sheet metal, wire and paint
22¼ by 21 by 8¼ in.
56.5 by 53.3 by 21 cm.
Executed in 1947.
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A08018.
Galerie Gerald Cramer, Geneva (acquired directly from the artist circa 1947)
Brook Street Gallery, London
Private Collection, New York
Magenta Manhattan Arts, New York
Acquired from the above in April 1988 by the present owner
Brook Street Gallery, London
Private Collection, New York
Magenta Manhattan Arts, New York
Acquired from the above in April 1988 by the present owner
Gerald Cramer, Oeuvres Originales de Peintres 1867-1950, Geneva, 1950, no. 87F, p. 45, illustrated
Annick Ehrenström, Un éditeur genevois: Gérald Cramer, Geneva, 1988, p. 37, illustrated
Annick Ehrenström, Un éditeur genevois: Gérald Cramer, Geneva, 1988, p. 37, illustrated
New York, Buchholz Gallery, Alexander Calder, December 1947