Live Auction 3761First Open
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Lot 8 Property from the Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

Bracelet

Closed30 September 2015

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USD 203,000

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Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Bracelet
silver wire
6 x 3 1/4 x 2 1/8 in. (15.2 x 8.2 x 5.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1960.

Perls Galleries, New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, 1969
Mary Rockefeller Morgan, circa 1970s
Mary Rockefeller Morgan Charitable Trust

Specialist note

[Calder] instinctively filtered forms patterns and symbols from organic sources and early societies into his pieces often connecting the wearier to something primal"
-A.S.C. Rower, Calder Jewelry, exh. cat. Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, 2008, p. 17.