Alexander Calder

Mobile

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Property from the Collection of Natalie and Léon Seroussi, Paris

Alexander Calder

1898 - 1976

Mobile

sheet metal, wire and paint

56 x 175 x 50 cm; 18 ⅛ x 68 ⅞ x 19 ¾ in.

Executed in 1950.

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A00883.

Accompanying the work is an autograph letter signed by Alexander Calder and addressed to Pierre Loeb, dated 27 February 1951 (3 pages): “My dear Pierre, Did you ever receive the mobile I sent (...) for you? (...) My exhibition at Maeght has travelled to the Netherlands, Sweden and England (...).” The letter is accompanied by an original drawing of Mobile, enhanced with coloured pencils.

Sylvia and Pierre Loeb, Paris (acquired from the artist in 1951)

Galerie Albert Loeb, Paris (acquired from the above)

Collection Léon and Natalie Seroussi, Meudon (acquired from the above circa 1990)

Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Calder, 2 April - 31 May 1969, no. 110, p. 62

Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Calder, 29 June - 7 September 1969, no. 94

Stedelijk Museum, Calder, 4 October – 16 November 1969, no. 71, p. 40

Rodez, Musée Soulages, Calder: Forgeron des géantes libellules, 24 June - 29 October 2017, pp. 136 et 206, illustrated in colour

Alexander Calder, James Johnson Sweeney, and Daniel Lelong, Calder, l’artiste et l’oeuvre, Paris 1971, p. 10, illustrated

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