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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 20, 2025 | Christie's | New York | Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale | 540 | $****** - ****** | The Clove (Maquette) |
sculpture
21.6 x 20.3 x 15.2 cm (8.5 x 8 x 6 in)
stabile-sheet metal and paint
incised with the artist"s monogram "CA" (on the horizontal element)
Perls Galleries, New York
Art Dealers Association of America, New York, 1972
Their sale; Paddle8, 5 March 2017
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Calder: Stabiles & Mobiles , February-March 1937.
Seoul, K Museum of Contemporary Art, Calder on Paper , December 2019-April 2020.
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Calder: Great Yellow Sun , January-August 2021, pp. 19, 49 and 92 (illustrated).
Paris, Gagosian Gallery, Calder , October-December 2021, pp. 88-89, 95-97 and 136 (illustrated).
Knokke-Heist, MARIANI MERCIER, Calder and Miró , July-August 2023.
M. L. Tiers, “Down Mobile Way,” Cue , vol. 12, no. 42, 16 October 1943, p. 12 (illustrated).
M. Pedrosa, “Alexandre Calder, Escultor de Cata-Ventos,” Correio da Manhã , 10 December 1944, p. 1 (illustrated).
"MoMA"s salute to Alexander Calder," Interiors , February 1970, p. 8 (illustrated).
Alexander Calder: 1898-1976 , exh. cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1998, p. 146, fig. 31 (illustrated).
Pierre Matisse and His Artists , exh. cat., New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, 2002, p. 174 (illustrated).
H. P. Stern, D. Collens and A. S. C. Rower, Calder: Storm King Art Center , Mountainville, 2003, p. 15, fig. 5 (illustrated).
Calder-Miró , exh. cat., Riehen, Fondation Beyeler, 2004, pp. 43 and 67, figs. 16 and 40 (illustrated).
The Surreal Calder , exh. cat., Houston, The Menil Collection, 2005, p. 133, fig. 54 (illustrated).
Alexander Calder: The Modernist , exh. cat., Zürich, Galerie Gmurzynska, 2005, p. 85 (illustrated).
A. Pierre, Calder: Mouvement et Réalité , Paris, 2009, pp. 214 and 217 (illustrated).
Calder 1941 , exh. cat., New York, The Pace Gallery, 2011, p. 8, fig. 2 (illustrated).
A. S. C. Rower, ed., Calder by Matter , Paris, 2013, p. 37 (illustrated).
Alexander Calder: Multum in Parvo, exh. cat., New York, Dominique Lévy Gallery, 2015, p. 142 (illustrated).
Alexander Calder: Retrospective , exh. cat., Moscow, Pushkin Museum, 2015, p. 139 (illustrated).
J. Perl, Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940 , New York, 2017, p. 500 (illustrated).
Calder: From the Stony River to the Sky , exh. cat., Somerset, Hauser & Wirth, 2018, p. 16, fig. 7 (illustrated).
Alexander Calder: Modern from the Start , exh. cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2021, p. 10 (illustrated).
Pierre Matisse: An Art Dealer in New York , exh. cat., Nice, Musée Matisse, 2021, pp. 88 and 152 (illustrated).
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
The Clove (Maquette)
incised with the artist"s monogram "CA" (on the horizontal element)
stabile-sheet metal and paint
8 ½ x 8 x 6 in. (21.6 x 20.3 x 15.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1936.
