Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Lot 101 The Arthur and Anita Kahn Collection: A New York Story

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

Tiara

Closed11 November 2015

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USD 106,250

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Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Tiara
brass wire
3 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 10 in. (8.9 x 21.6 x 25.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1940.

Perls Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A00216.


“Calder presented his jewelry as an invitation to join with him in eschewing the facile and pretentious. It is the intense personal connection to him and its tremendous individuality that makes Calder jewelry hotly connected by collectors (even within the Calder family)! In my grandfather’s day and today, when his jewelry owners wears his pieces, it sets them apart and they make unspoken recognition as members of the Calder clan” (A. S. C. Rower, Calder Jewelry, exh. cat., Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, 2008, p. 17).