ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Crown
brass wire
1 ½ x 8 x 8 ½ in. (3.8 x 20.3 x 21.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1930.
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Crown
brass wire
1 ½ x 8 x 8 ½ in. (3.8 x 20.3 x 21.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1930.
Jane Davenport de Tomasi, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, gift of the artist Private collection, Massachusetts Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 7 November 1997, lot 391 Private collection, Germany Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 18 May 2000, lot 370 Private collection, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, James Goodman Gallery, Calder Space in Play, October-December 2014.
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A17073.
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