Live Auction 3791Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Lot 106 The Arthur and Anita Kahn Collection: A New York Story

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

Black Areas

Closed11 November 2015

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USD 1,145,000

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Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Black Areas
signed with artist's monogram 'CA' (on the largest element)
hanging mobile--sheet metal, wood, wire, lead, string and paint
28 x 31 x 10 in. (71.1 x 78.7 x 25.4 cm.)
Executed in 1938.

Gift of the artist to Jean Hélion, Rockbridge Baths, Virginia
Private collection, 1955
Elkon Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1965

Specialist note

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A15273.