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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 18, 2025 | Christie's | New York | 20th Century Evening Sale | 28A | $****** - ****** | Painted Wood | |||
May 5, 1986 | Sotheby's | New York | N/A | 28 | Estimates not disclosed | Untitled |
sculpture
198.1 x 189.2 x 11.4 cm (78 x 74.5 x 4.5 in)
hanging mobile-wood, string, wire and paint
Henrique Mindlin, Rio de Janeiro, gift of the artist
His sale; Sotheby"s, New York, 5 May 1986, lot 28
Private collection
International Art Center, London, 1989
Galeria Theo, Madrid, 1989
Pace Gallery, New York, 1989
Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York & Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich, 1992
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1993
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Alexander Calder: Sculptures and Constructions , September 1943-January 1944.
Rio de Janeiro, Ministério da Educação e Saúde and São Paulo, Museu de Arte, Alexander Calder , September-November 1948.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Alexander Calder: 1898-1976 , March-December 1998, p. 251, no. 204 (illustrated; titled and dated Untitled , circa 1947).
New York, Pace Gallery, Calder: Constellations , April-June 2017, pp. 16-17, 44-45 and 114, figs. 17 and 18, pl. 32 (illustrated and illustrated in situ).
A. R. Claflin, Alexander Calder: Sculpture and Constructions , 1944 (film).
J. Baal-Teshuva, Alexander Calder , Cologne, 1998, p. 48 (illustrated; titled and undated Untitled ).
Calder in Brazil , exh. cat., Pinacoteca de Estado de São Paulo, 2006, pp. 68-69, 73, 80-81 and 106-107 (illustrated; dated circa 1947).
Calder After the War , exh. cat., Pace London, 2013, p. 115 (illustrated in situ).
Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic , exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013, pp. 122 and 173, fig. 2 (illustrated in situ).
G. Ferreira and P. Herkenhoff, eds., Mário Pedrosa: Primary Documents , New York, 2015, p. 25 (ilustrated in situ).
A lexander Calder: Performing Sculpture , exh. cat., London, Tate Modern, 2015, p. 26 (illustrated in situ).
Alexander Calder & Fischli/Weiss , exh. cat., Riehen/Basel, Fondation Beyeler, 2016, p. 177, fig. 11 (illustrated in situ).
Calder/Miró: Chronology and Correspondence , exh. cat., New York, Pace Gallery and Acquavella Galleries Inc., 2017, p. 73, fig. 54 (illustrated in situ).
Calder and Brazilian Art , exh. cat., São Paulo, Itaú Cultural, 2018, pp. 42 and 215 (illustrated in situ).
Alexander Calder: Modern from the Start , exh. cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2021, p. 28, fig. 22 (illustrated in situ).
Calder Now , exh. cat., Kunsthal Rotterdam, 2021, p. 177 (illustrated in situ).
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Painted Wood
hanging mobile-wood, string, wire and paint
78 x 74 ½ x 4 ½ in. (198.1 x 189.2 x 11.5 cm.)
Executed in 1943.
