Live Auction 2891Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Lot 76 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

Big Red

Closed12 November 2014

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USD 5,765,000

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Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Big Red
signed with initials and dated ‘CA 1969’ (on the largest black element)
hanging mobile--painted sheet metal, wire and rod
36 x 112 x 26 in. (91.4 x 284.5 x 66 cm.)
Executed in 1969.

Perls Galleries, New York
Private collection, Rye, 1971
Private collection, by descent from the above, 1975
Simon Capstick-Dale Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner