The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction

The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction

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Alexander Calder

Red Comber

Auction Closed

November 9, 12:13 AM GMT

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Alexander Calder

(1898 - 1976)


Red Comber

incised with the artist's monogram (on the base)

sheet metal, brass, wire and paint

21 ¾ by 24 ½ by 8 ¼ in. 55.2 by 62.2 by 21 cm.

Executed in 1962.


This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A04809.

Perls Galleries, New York
Brook Street Gallery, London (acquired in 1965)
Private Collection, Bloomfield Hills
Donald Morris Gallery, Inc., Birmingham 
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in February 1987 by the present owner
Martin Filler, "An Artful Oasis," House Beautiful, no. 140, March 1998, pp. 74-83, illustrated in color
Julie L. Belcove, "Collected Wisdom," Architectural Digest, December 2011, pp. 130, 133, illustrated in color
Mark Stephen Archer, The New Formal: Interiors by James Aman, New York, 2016, pp. 126, 130, 131, illustrated in color (in installation) 
New York, Barbara Mathes Gallery, Contemporary Group Show, January - February 1987
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Five Decades of Passion Part One: The Eye of the Collector, 1968-1988, January - April 2009