Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction, including the Ralph I. Goldenberg Collection

Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction, including the Ralph I. Goldenberg Collection

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Primary Structures: The Ralph I. Goldenberg Collection

Alexander Calder

Animal Negro

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Alexander Calder

1898 - 1976


Animal Negro

sheet metal, brass wire and paint

6.4 by 10.8 by 4.4 cm. 2½ by 4¼ by 1¾ in.

Executed in 1955.


This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A09326.

Carlos Raul Villanueva, Caracas (acquired directly from the artist in 1955)

Dr. and Mrs. Innocente Palacios, Caracas (acquired from the above in 1955)

CDS Gallery, New York

Private Collection, New York

B.C. Holland Inc., Chicago

Acquired from the above in 1987 by Ralph I. Goldenberg

Caracas, Museo de Bellas Artes, Exposición Calder, September 1955, no. 41 (text)

Caracas, Fundación Eugenio Mendoza, Calder en Venezuela, July - August 1969, no. 28, n.p., illustrated

New York, Rachel Adler Gallery, Alexander Calder, May - June 1984