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Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Lot 219

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

Untitled

Fermé11 May 2016

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Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Untitled
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'CA 70' (on the base)
standing mobile--sheet metal, brass, wire and paint
16 x 14 x 11 in. (40.6 x 35.6 x 27.9 cm.)
Executed in 1970.

Private collection, Saché, France, gift of the artist
Private collection, Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, 1976
Private collection, Denver, 2000
Acquired from the above the present owner

Note du spécialiste

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A27415.

"When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprises" (A. Calder, quoted in E. Hutton and O. Wick (eds.), Calder, London, 2004, p. 261).