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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 16, 2018 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 47 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | DOUBLE ARC AND SPHERE |
sculpture
81.3 x 30.2 x 29.5 cm (32.01 x 11.89 x 11.61 in)
wood, rod and paint
The artist
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1933
New York, Julien Levy Gallery, Calder: Mobiles: Abstract Sculptures, May - June 1932
Pittsfield, Berkshire Museum, Modern Painting and Sculpture: Alexander Calder, George L.K. Morris, Calvert Coggeshall, Alma de Gersdorff Morgan, August 1993, no. 25 or 26
Pittsfield, Berkshire Museum, Alexander Calder, August 1933, n.p.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Alexander Calder, September 1943 – January 1944, p. 57, no. 32 (text)
Cambridge, New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Calder, December 1950 - January 1951
São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna, Il Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, December 1953 - February 1954, no. 12
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Toronto, The Art Gallery of Toronto; Des Moines, Des Moines Art Center; Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Center; St. Louis, Washington University Gallery of Art; and Paris, Musée national d’art moderne, Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, November 1964 - January 1965, no. 130 (as The Arc and the Quadrum)
Pittsfield, Berkshire Museum, Mobiles by Alexander Calder, July 1966
Cincinnati, Taft Museum, Alexander Calder: Early Works, c. 1927-1944, December 1971 - January 1972, p. 8, illustrated
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, Work from 1925-1974, October - December 1974
Munich, Haus der Kunst; and Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Calder, May – November 1975, p. 52, no. 14 (text) (Zurich)
Turin, Palazzo a Vela, Calder: Mostra retrospettiva, July - September 1983, p. 85, no. 140, illustrated
Cambridge, Bakalar Sculpture Gallery, Alexander Calder: Artist as Engineer, January - April 1986, p. 2, illustrated
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; and Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Calder: The Paris Years 1926-1933, October 2008 – July 2009, p. 25, no. 201, illustrated in color
"Objects to Art Being Static, So He Keeps It in Motion," New York World-Telegram, June 11, 1932 (text)
Anatole Jakovski, "Alexandre Calder," Cahiers d'Art, vol. 8, no. 5-6, 1933, p. 244, illustrated
"Museums Acquire Calder's Art in Motion," Art Digest, vol. 32, November 1, 1934, p. 16, illustrated
H.H. Arnason, Calder, Princeton, 1966, p. 42 (text) (as The Arc and the Quadrum)
Bernice Winslow Mancewicz, Alexander Calder: A Pictorial Essay, Grand Rapids, 1969, p. 30 (text) (as The Arc and the Quadrum)
Wayne Anderson, American Sculpture in Process: 1930/1970, New York, 1975, p. 9, no. 6, illustrated (as Motorized Mobile)
Joan M. Marter, Alexander Calder, New York, 1991, p. 140, no. 93, illustrated
Paris/New York: 1908-1968, Paris, 1991, p. 523, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Milan, Calder, 1983, p. 85, no. 140, illustrated (as The Arc and the Quadrant)
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C. (and travelling), Alexander Calder: 1898 – 1976, 1998, p. 72, illustrated, p. 339, illustrated (in installation at the Museum of Modern Art)
Exh. Cat., Tokyo, Japan Art and Culture Association, Alexander Calder: Motion and Color, 2000, p. 164, illustrated
Louise Anderson Allen, A Bluestocking in Charleston: The Life and Career of Laura Bragg, Columbia, 2001, p. 177 (as The Arc and the Quadrant)
Exh. Cat., Lodève, Musée de Lodève, Calder, gouaches, sculptures, dessins, tapisseries, 2003, p. 19, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Alexander Calder: Avant-Garde in Motiofn, 2013, p. 86, illustrated
William F. Pinar, The Worldliness of a Cosmopolitan Education: Passionate Lives in Public Service, New York, 2009, p. 88 (as The Arc and the Quadrant)
Arnauld Pierre, Calder: Mouvement et Réalité, Paris, 2009, pp. 150-151, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Aachen, Ludwig Forumn, Nancy Graves Project & Special Guests, 2013, p. 161, illustrated
Alexander S. C. Rower, Ed., Cahier's d'Art, no. 1, 2015, p. 26, illustrated, p. 100, illustrated
wood, wire, rod and paint
32 by 11 7/8 by 11 5/8 in. 81.3 by 30.2 by 29.5 cm.
Executed circa 1932, this work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A03743.
