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Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Lot 127

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

Untitled

Closed2 July 2014

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GBP 218,500

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Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Untitled
painted metal sheet and brass wire
4 x 3 ½ x 2 ½in. (10.1 x 8.8 x 6.3cm.)
Executed circa 1950

Private Collection (a gift from the artist circa 1951).
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

'An abstract configuration of articulated parts in which each part or segment is free to describe a movement of its own; but it is a motion conditioned by, yet distinct from, the movement of all the other articulated segments of which the total construction is made-up' (A. Calder, quoted in J. Baal-Teshuva, Alexander Calder: 1898-1976, Cologne 2002, p. 23).