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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Alexander Calder

La Feuille Jaune

Estimate

2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Alexander Calder

(1898 - 1976)


La Feuille Jaune

sheet metal, wire and paint

47 ½ by 84 in.

120.7 by 213.4 cm.

Executed circa 1954.


This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A14432.

Galerie Maeght, Paris

Gallery Michael Hertz, Bremen (acquired from the above in 1960)

Galerie Maeght, Paris

Dunkleman Gallery, Toronto (acquired from the above in 1968)

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 21 May 1975, lot 191 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Miami (acquired at the above sale) 

Sotheby’s, London, 26 June 2012, lot 53 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Amsterdam, Stedeljik Museum; Brussels, Palais de Beaux-Arts; and Zurich, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Alexander Calder, Stabilen, Mobilen, 1959-60, no. 26, p. 22 (titled Gelbes Blatt) (Amsterdam); no. 25, p. 12 (Brussels); and no. 26, p. 16 (titled Gelbes Blatt. La Feuille jaune) (Zurich)

Musée de Rennes, Alexander Calder: Mobiles, Gouaches, Tapisseries, 1962-63, no. 14, p. 20 (dated 1958)

Toronto, York University, American Art of the Sixties in Toronto Private Collections, 1969, no. 5 (dated 1958/60)