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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 11, 2015 | Christie's | New York | Eve. Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale | 4B | $****** - ****** | Vertical out of Horizontal |
sculpture
137.2 x 154.9 x 101.6 cm (54 x 61 x 40 in)
hanging mobile—sheet metal, wire and paint
Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, acquired from the artist
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1952
Their sale; Sotheby's New York, 6 November 1981, lot 398
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Paris, Galerie Maeght, Calder: Mobiles and Stabiles, June-July 1950, no. 32.
New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers, January-February 1952, no. 12.
Lincoln, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Nebraska Art Association Sixty-Second Annual Exhibition, March 1952.
Kunsthalle Basel, Alexander Calder, May-June 1957, no. 30.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Elan Vital oder Das Auge Des Eros: Kandinsky, Klee, Arp, Miró, Calder, May-August 1994, fig. 459, no. 227 (illustrated in color).
Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Stockholm, Moderna Museet and Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Alexander Calder, October 1995-October 1996, p. 59, no. 59 (illustrated).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Alexander Calder 1898-1976, March-December 1998, pp. 260-261, no. 215 (illustrated in color).
Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum and Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Calder: Gravity and Grace, March 2003-April 2004, no. 36 (illustrated in color).
Rome, Gagosian Gallery, Alexander Calder: Monumental Sculpture, October 2009-January 2010.
