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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 15, 2024 | Sotheby's | New York | Modern Evening Auction | 3 | $****** - ****** | Blue Moon |
sculpture
152.4 x 762 cm (60 x 300 in)
sheet metal, rod, wire and paint
incised with the artist"s monogram and dated 62 (on the red circular element)
Galerie Maeght, Paris
Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 1975)
Thence by descent to the present owner
London, Tate Gallery, Alexander Calder: Sculpture-Mobiles , 1962, no. 71, p. 26
George Rickey, “Calder in London,” Arts Magazine , vol. 36, no. 10, September 1962, p. 23, illustrated (in installation image of 1962 Tate Gallery exhibition)
“A Sculptor of Mobiles: Mr. Calder"s Joyful Tate Exhibition,” The Times , 4 July 1962, p. 15, illustrated (in installation image of 1962 Tate Gallery exhibition)
John M. Nash, “Sculptures Driven by Motors,” Yorkshire Post , 16 July 1962, illustrated (in installation image of 1962 Tate Gallery exhibition)
Edward Lucie Smith, “Many Dimensions,” The Listener, 19 July 1962, p. 106, illustrated (in installation image of 1962 Tate Gallery exhibition)
Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Atlanta, The High Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center and Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Calder"s Universe , p. 266, illustrated (in installation image of 1962 Tate Gallery exhibition)
Gene Lipman and Margaret Aspinwall eds., Alexander Calder and His Magical Mobiles , New York, 1981, p. 8, illustrated (in installation image of 1962 Tate Gallery exhibition)
Exh. Cat., Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Alexander Calder: Avant-Garde in Motion , 2013, p. 106
Property from a Prestigious Private European Collection
Alexander Calder
1898 - 1976
Blue Moon
incised with the artist"s monogram and dated 62 (on the red circular element)
sheet metal, rod, wire and paint
60 by 300 in.
152.4 by 762 cm.
Executed in 1962.
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A13196 .