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A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller

Alexander Calder

Paulette

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May 14, 01:12 AM GMT

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3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD

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A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller

Alexander Calder 

(1898 - 1976)


Paulette

incised Calder, titled and dated 22 May 1948 (on largest black element)

sheet metal, string, wire and paint

46 ¾ by 56 ¼ by 20 in.   118.7 by 142.9 by 50.8 cm.

Executed on 22 May 1948.


This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A10333.

Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard (commissioned from the artist in 1948)

Alexander Calder (acquired from the above in 1948)

Mary Batsell, Paris (acquired from the above in 1951)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1953)

Galerie Hopkins Custot, Paris

Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Maeght; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Stockholm, Galerie Blanche; London, The Lefevre Gallery; Vienna, Neue Gallery, Calder: Mobiles & Stabiles, 1950-51, no. 8 (Paris), no. 7 (Amsterdam, Stockholm, London, Vienna)

Copenhagen, Palais de Charlottenborg, Klar Form, 1951, no. 118, p. 7