Alexander Calder

The Beetle

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May 15, 11:51 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 4,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Im Spazio: The Space of Thoughts

Alexander Calder

1898 - 1976

The Beetle

incised with the artist's monogram (on the topmost black element)

sheet metal, wire and paint

28 ½ by 49 ½ by 21 ¾ in.

72.4 by 124.5 by 55.2 cm.

Executed circa 1948.

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A07752.

Perls Galleries, New York

Makler Gallery, Philadelphia (acquired from the above in 1966)

Galerie Walter Moos, Toronto

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above circa 1970)

Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 2002)

Christie's New York, 11 May 2005, lot 25 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Seoul, Kukje Gallery, Alexander Calder: Poetry in Motion, December 2003 - February 2004, no. 8, p. 41, illustrated in color, p. 99, illustrated in color (in installation) and p. 101 (text)