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Collection of Jean & Terry de Gunzburg

Alexander Calder

Mobile Blanc

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May 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000,000 - 7,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Collection of Jean & Terry de Gunzburg

Alexander Calder

(1898 - 1976)


Mobile Blanc

incised with the artist's monogram and dated 63 (on the circular element)

sheet metal, wire and paint

52 by 98 in.

132.1 by 248.8 cm.

Executed in 1963.


This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A01749.

Galerie Maeght, Paris

Masters Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1969)

Sotheby’s New York, 5 May 1986, lot 37

Douglas S. Cramer, Los Angeles (acquired at the above sale)

Christie’s New York, 7 May 1997, lot 31 (consigned by the above)

Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired from the above in 2000 by the present owner

Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght, Calder, April - May 1969, no. 239, p. 186, illustrated (incorrectly dated 1966)

New York, Lever House, Alexander Calder Sculpture, January - May 1999

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Calder: Great Yellow Sun, January - August 2021, pp. 95, 98 and 103, illustrated in color

Carlos Vilardebo, Mobiles, 1966, 5:55–6:17, illustrated in color (video)

Alexander Calder, James Johnson Sweeney and Daniel LeLong, Calder, l’artiste et l’oeuvre, Paris 1971, p. 119, illustrated

François Levy-Kuentz, Calder: Sculpteur de l’air, 2009, 50:00-50:22, illustrated in color (video)

Holly Brubach, "An Eye for Beauty," W Magazine, 28 April 2014, illustrated in color (installed in de Gunzburg residence, 2014)

Jacoba Urist, "Purple Reign," Financial Times, 21 February 2026, p. 8, illustrated in color (installed in de Gunzburg residence, 2026)