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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 16, 2018 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 21C | $****** - ****** | Untitled |
sculpture
136.5 x 374.6 x 238.8 cm (53.75 x 147.5 x 94 in)
hanging mobile—sheet metal, wire and paint
Burgess Meredith, Mount Kisco, commissioned from the artist
Stanley Moss & Co., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1971
Oakland Museum, A Salute to Alexander Calder, November-December 1972.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, October 2000-January 2001, pp. 29, 282-283 and 356, fig. 15, pl. 165, no. 36 (illustrated in color and installation view illustrated in color).
W. Gibbs, "Theatre Review," The New Yorker, 14 January 1950, pp. 48-49.
J. J. Sweeney, Alexander Calder, New York, 1951, p. 75.
J. J. Sweeney, Alexander Calder: Sculpture, Mobiles, London, 1962, p. 29.
J. Fricker, Calder, Paris, 1965, p. 30.
H. H. Arnason, Calder, London, 1971, p. 84.
M. Besset, Alexander Calder, Zurich, 1975. p. 30.
P. D. Meltzer, "Reunited at Last: Burgess Meredith Rediscovers an Old Stage Set—Made for Him by Alexander Calder over Thirty Years Ago," Art and Auction, vol. 9, January 1987, pp. 16-18.
D. A. Ross et al., Celebrating Modern Art: Highlights from the Anderson Collection, San Francisco, 2000, p. 11 (installation view illustrated).
P. Rowlands, "Double Feature," Art News, vol. 99, no. 10, November 2000, pp. 179-179 (installation view illustrated in color).
G. Allen et al., A Family Affair: Modern and Contemporary American Art from the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, New York, 2014, pp. 42-43 (installation view illustrated in color).
hanging mobile—sheet metal, wire and paint
53 3/4 x 147 1/2 x 94 in. (136.5 x 374.7 x 238.8 cm.)
Executed in 1949.
