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Lot 216 Property from the Estate of Carol A Straus
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Untitled
Closed16 November 2016
Price Realised
USD 499,500
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Specialist note
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York under application number A28064.
“[Calder] has always avoided modeling in favor of direct handling—cutting, shaping with a hammer, or assembling piece by piece. Such an approach has fostered a simplicity of form and clarity of contour in his work. It allies him with Brancusi, Arp, Moore and Giacometti in their repudiation of virtuosity” (J. J. Sweeney,Alexander Calder, exh. cat., New York 1951, p. 8, reproduced in C. Giménez & A. S. C. Rower (eds.),Calder: Gravity and Grace, London 2004, p. 72).
“[Calder] has always avoided modeling in favor of direct handling—cutting, shaping with a hammer, or assembling piece by piece. Such an approach has fostered a simplicity of form and clarity of contour in his work. It allies him with Brancusi, Arp, Moore and Giacometti in their repudiation of virtuosity” (J. J. Sweeney,Alexander Calder, exh. cat., New York 1951, p. 8, reproduced in C. Giménez & A. S. C. Rower (eds.),Calder: Gravity and Grace, London 2004, p. 72).