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ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Lot 1 MPROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF EUNICE W. & JOHN H. JOHNSON

ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)

Cheval II

Closed12 November 2019

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ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Cheval II
signed with the artist's monogram and numbered 'CA 5/6' (on the rear right leg)
bronze with black patina
4 ½ x 8 x 4 ¾ in. (11.4 x 20.3 x 12.1 cm.)
Conceived in 1930, cast in 1966 in an edition of six plus one artist's proof

Galerie Maeght, Paris, acquired in 1966.
Mrs. Eunice W. and John H. Johnson, Chicago, 1969, acquired from the above.
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

This model was first cast in a numbered edition of fifty in 1964 by Kunstgiesserei Schmaeke, Dusseldorf, for the Documenta Foundation. Examples are held in the Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France (ed. FM) and the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (ed. 25/50).
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A00861.5.