Alexander Calder

Four Big Dots

Auction Closed

May 14, 01:12 AM GMT

Estimate

6,000,000 - 8,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from SFMOMA: Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund

Alexander Calder

(1898 - 1976)

Four Big Dots

signed with the artist's monogram and dated 63 (on highest triangular element)

sheet metal, wire and paint

30 by 150 by 32 in.

76.2 by 381 by 81.3 cm.

Executed in 1963.

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A05747.

Perls Galleries, New York

Acquired from the above in 1963 by the present owner

Paul Anbinder, ed., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: The Painting and Sculpture Collection, New York, 1985, p. 283, illustrated

New York, Perls Galleries, Alexander Calder: 1963, 1963

Fresno Arts Center, Masterworks of Modern Sculpture, 1976, no. 35, n.p., illustrated

Lincoln, University of Nebraska, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Alexander Calder: An American Invention, 1986, p. 20

San Francisco Museum of Art, 1996, 1997-99, 2012-13 (permanent collection installation)