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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 11, 2015 | Christie's | New York | Looking Forward to the Past | 23 | $****** - ****** | The New Ritou |
sculpture
140.3 x 127 x 36.8 cm (55.24 x 50 x 14.49 in)
hanging mobile--painted sheet metal, wood, string and rod
signed with the artist's monogram ‘CA’ (on the largest element)
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York Galerie Maeght, Paris, 1981
Private collection, Geneva, 1990
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Bucholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, Calder , November-December 1949, p. 8, no. 15 (drawing illustrated). Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Calder , December 1950-January 1951. New York, Byron Gallery, The Surrealists , November-December 1969, pp. 26-27, no. 9 (illustrated). New York, Perls Galleries, Alexander Calder: Recent Gouaches, Early Mobiles , October-November 1970, p. 12, no. 12 (illustrated). Paris, Galerie Maeght, Calder , October 1981, p. 14, no. 18 (illustrated in color). Turin, Palazzo a Vela, Calder: Mostra Retrospettiva , July-September 1983, p. 88, no. 148 (illustrated in color). Munich, Haus der Kunst, Elan Vital oder Das Auge Des Eros: Kandinsky, Klee, Arp, Miró, Calder , May-August 1994, p. 55, no. 232, pl. 373 (illustrated in color). New York, Pace Wildenstein, Earthly Forms: The Biomorphic Sculpture of Arp, Calder and Noguchi , February-March 2000, p. 51 (illustrated in color). Seoul, Kukje Gallery, Calder: Poetry in Motion , December 2003-February 2004, pp. 18, 42-43 and 99, no. 9 (illustrated in color). New York, Hammer Galleries, Objects in Space: Léger, Miró, Calder , November 2012–January 2013, p. 65 (illustrated in color). New York, Venus Over Manhattan, Calder Shadows , November 2013-February 2014. Menlo Park, California, Pace Gallery, Alexander Calder: The Art of Invention , April-May 2014. New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, The New York School 1969, Henry Geldzahler at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , January-March 2015
Alexander Calder: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Klaus Perls , exh. cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1997, p. 6 (illustrated). Alexander Calder: 1898– 1976 , exh. cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1998, p. 230, fig. 41 (illustrated). Adventures in Art: 40 Years at Pace, exh. cat., New York, PaceWildenstein, 2001, pp. 612-613 (illustrated in color). A Modern Definition of Space: Calder Sculpture , exh. cat., New York, Van de Weghe Fine Art, 2003, p. 83 (illustrated). Calder: Gravity and Grace , exh. cat., Fundación del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, 2003, p. 236 (illustrated). Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013, p. 175 (illustrated)
