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Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Lot 151 The Arthur and Anita Kahn Collection: A New York Story

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

Untitled

Closed11 May 2016

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USD 809,000

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Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Untitled
standing mobile--sheet metal, brass, wire and paint
16 x 12 x 3 ½ in. (40.6 x 30.4 x 8.9 cm.)
Executed circa 1951.

Private collection, Litchfield, Connecticut, circa 1951, acquired directly from the artist
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1970s

Specialist note

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A14965.

"When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprises" (A. Calder, quoted in E. Hutton and O. Wick (eds.), Calder, London, 2004, p. 261).