Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Lot 152The Arthur and Anita Kahn Collection: A New York Story

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

Black Waves Three Dots

Fermé11 May 2016

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Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Black Waves Three Dots
signed with the artist's monogram 'CA' (on the black element)
standing mobile–sheet metal, wire and paint
8 x 12 x 1 1/2 in. (20.3 x 30.4 x 3.8 cm.)
Executed in 1950.

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

Note du spécialiste

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A08173.

"A light breeze [starts] in motion weights, counter-weights, levers which design in mid-air their unpredictable arabesques and introduce an element of lasting surprise. The symphony is complete when color and sound join in and call on all our senses to follow the unwritten score. Pure joie de vivre. The art of Calder is the sublimation of a tree in the wind" (M. Duchamp, quoted in G. Braziller,The Sculpture of the Century, New York 1959, p. 85)