Live Auction 12153Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Lot 219

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

Untitled

Closed11 May 2016

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USD 461,000

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Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Untitled
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'CA 70' (on the base)
standing mobile--sheet metal, brass, wire and paint
16 x 14 x 11 in. (40.6 x 35.6 x 27.9 cm.)
Executed in 1970.

Private collection, Saché, France, gift of the artist
Private collection, Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, 1976
Private collection, Denver, 2000
Acquired from the above the present owner

Specialist note

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A27415.

"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).