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Lot 147 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF RUDOLF AND LEONORE BLUM
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
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Closed2 July 2014
Price Realised
GBP 170,500
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When I have used spheres and discs, I have intended that they should represent more than what they just are. More or less as the earth is a sphere, but also has some miles of gas about it, volcanoes upon it, and the moon making circles around it, and as the sun is a sphere—but also is a source of intense heat, the effect of which is felt at great distances. A ball of wood or a disc of metal is rather a dull object without this sense of something emanating from it.
(A. Calder, quoted in Museum of Modern Art Bulletin, vol. 18, no. 3, Spring 1951).
(A. Calder, quoted in Museum of Modern Art Bulletin, vol. 18, no. 3, Spring 1951).