Alexander Calder

.125

Irrevocable Bids

Auction Closed

November 19, 11:58 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Pennsylvania

Alexander Calder

1898 - 1976

.125

incised with the artist's monogram (on the largest red element); incised with a copyright symbol and Port Authority of New York 1957 (on the largest black element)

sheet metal, wire and paint

7 ½ by 18 by 7 in.

19.1 by 45.7 by 17.8 cm.

Executed in 1956.

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A00402.

Perls Galleries, New York

Private Collection, Philadelphia (acquired from the above in February 1976)

Thence by descent in 2004 to the present owner

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Calder’s Universe, October 1976 - February 1977, p. 4 (checklist) and p. 303 (illustration of monumental work)