ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Ring
brass wire
1 5/8 x 1 ¾ x 1 in. (4.1 x 4.4 x 2.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1940.
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Ring
brass wire
1 5/8 x 1 ¾ x 1 in. (4.1 x 4.4 x 2.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1940.
Perls Galleries, New York Ruth Horwich, Chicago, 1972 Her sale; Christie's, New York, 6 March 2015, lot 6 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
A. Rower, et. al., eds., Calder Jewelry, New York, 2007, p. 251 (illustrated)
New York, Willard Gallery, Calder Jewelry, December 1940. Paris, Musée des Art Décoratif, The Intimate World of Alexander Calder, February-May 1989, p. 296 (illustrated).
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A16549.
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