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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 16, 2016 | Christie's | New York | Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 16A | $****** - ****** | John Graham |
sculpture
30.5 x 20.3 x 22.9 cm (12 x 8 x 9 in)
wire
John D. Graham, Paris, gifted by the artist
David Smith, Bolton Landing, gifted from the above
By descent from the above to the present owner, 1965
Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, Americans in Paris (1921-1931): Man Ray, Gerald Murphy, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder, April-August 1996, p. 135 (illustrated).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Paris, Centre Pompidou, Alexander Calder: the Paris Years, 1926-1933, October 2008-July 2009, p. 75, pl. 18 (New York, illustrated in color); p. 289, no. 164 (Paris, illustrated in color).
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933, October 2009-January 2010, no. 46.
Washington, D.C., National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Calder’s Portraits: A New Language, March–August 2011, pp. 116, 118 and 150, fig. 98 (illustrated in color).
Purchase College, State University of New York, Neuberger Museum of Art; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum of American Art and Andover, Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art, American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning, and Their Circle, 1927-1942, January-December 2012, p. 179, no. 81 (illustrated in color and on the back cover).
John Graham: Artist and Avatar, exh. cat., Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, 1987, pp. 31-32, cat. 79 (illustrated).
David Smith: 1906-1965, exh. cat., Valencia, IVAM, Centre Julio Gonza´lez, 1996, p. 263 (installation view illustrated).
David Smith: A Centennial, exh. cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2006, p. 401 (installation view illustrated).
wire
12 x 8 x 9 in. (30.5 x 20.3 x 22.9 cm.)
Executed circa 1931.
