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Property from a Distinguished Private American Collection

Alexander Calder

Untitled

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private American Collection

Alexander Calder

1898 - 1976


Untitled

incised with the artist’s monogram (on the base)

sheet metal, brass, wire and paint

16 ½ by 20 by 8 in.

41.9 by 50.8 by 20.3 cm.

Executed in 1960. 


This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A14681.

Galerie Maeght, Paris

Gallery Claude Bernard, Paris (acquired from the above in 1962)

Pace Gallery, New York

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1963)

Private Collection, Massachusetts

Christie’s New York, 12 November 2003, lot 308 (consigned by the above)

Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above in 2003 by the present owner

Charles Chaboud and Jean-Marie Drot, Calder, le mécanicien de l'espace, 1962, 8:32-8:50, illustrated in color (video)

Michel Ragon, “Mobiles et stabiles de Calder,” Jardin des Arts, no. 121, December 1964, p. 51, illustrated in color

Alexander Calder, Calder: An Autobiography with Pictures, New York 1966, p. 188, illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, Van de Weghe Fine Art, A Modern Definition of Space: Calder Sculpture, February - May 2003, no. 24, p. 77, illustrated in color