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Leonard A. Lauder, Collector

Alexander Calder

Untitled

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Leonard A. Lauder, Collector

Alexander Calder

(1898 - 1976)


Untitled

sheet metal, brass, wire and paint

5 by 4 ½ by 1 ½ in.  12.7 by 11.4 by 3.8 cm.

Executed circa 1953.


This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A08457.

Galerie Maeght, Paris

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above circa 1963)

James Goodman Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 2002)

Russeck Gallery, Palm Beach (acquired from the above in 2002)

John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco (acquired from the above in 2006)

Acquired from the above in May 2006 by the present owner

Santa Fe, Gerald Peters Gallery and Dallas, Gerald Peters Gallery, The Whimsical World of Alexander Calder, 2003

San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, Alexander Calder: Sculpture and Works on Paper, 2006

Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, and Jean Cocteau, dirs., 8 x 8 A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements, 1957, 20:37 – 20:53, illustrated in color (video)

Hans Richter, dir., Alexander Calder: From the Circus to the Moon, 1963, 2:12 – 2:29, illustrated in color (video)