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Im Spazio: The Space of Thoughts

Alexander Calder

Armada

Auction Closed

May 15, 11:51 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000,000 - 7,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Im Spazio: The Space of Thoughts

Alexander Calder

1898 - 1976 


Armada

incised sequentially 1-5 (on the outermost element of each grouping)  

sheet metal, rod, wire and paint

27 ½ by 85 by 22 ½ in.

69.9 by 57.2 by 214.6 cm.

Executed in 1946.


This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A02823.

Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York

Private Collection

Perls Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1977)

Minneapolis Institute of Art (acquired from the above in 1978)

Galerie Maeght, Paris (acquired from the above in 1983)

Galerie Lelong, Paris

Claude Berri, Paris (acquired from the above in 1996)

Christie's New York, 11 May 2004, lot 27 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Calder in Connecticut, 2000, p. 88, illustrated (installed in the artist's studio with the artist, 1947)

Alexander Rower, ed., Calder by Matter, Paris 2013, p. 226, illustrated (installed in the artist's studio with the artist, 1947)

Exh. Cat., London, Pace Gallery, Calder After the War, 2013, p. 136, illustrated (installed in the artist's studio with the artist, 1947)

Exh. Cat., Riehen, Fondation Beyeler, Alexander Calder: Trees – Naming Abstraction, 2013, p. 2, illustrated (installed in the artist's studio with the artist, 1947)

Exh. Cat., Kunsthal Rotterdam, Calder Now, 2021, p. 4, illustrated (installed in the artist's studio with the artist, 1947)

Hye-Jeong Yoon, "From Lee Ufan to Calder," Harper's Bazaar Korea, 27 April 2023, illustrated (installed in the artist's studio with the artist, 1947) (online)

Erik Palm, "Alexander Calder’s Kinetic Sculptures Arrive to Full Japanese Embrace," The Japan Times, 16 June 2024, illustrated (installed in the artist's studio with the artist, 1947) (online)

New York, Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, Alexander Calder, December 1947, no. 10, n.p. (text)

New York, M. Knoedler Gallery, To Honor Henry McBride: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Water Colors, November - December 1949, no. 28, pp. 7, 40 (text)

Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, The Age of Modernism: Art in the 20th Century, May - July 1997, no. 387, p. 491, illustrated in color