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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 18, 2017 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 20 | $****** - ****** | MONOCLE |
sculpture
89.5 x 81.3 x 51.4 cm (35.24 x 32.01 x 20.24 in)
painted sheet metal
Howard and Jean Lipman, New York and Connecticut (acquired directly from the artist in 1961)
Lipman Family Foundation, Inc.
Pace Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above
New York, Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, Alexander Calder, December 1947, p. 7, no. 23, illustrated
Worcester, Worcester Museum of Art, Sculpture at the Crossroads, February - March 1948, p. 30, no. 6, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Maeght; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Stockholm, Galerie Blanche; London, Lefevre Gallery; and Vienna, Neue Galerie, Calder: Mobiles and Stabiles, June 1950 - June 1951, no. 40 (Paris), no. 32 (Amsterdam, Stockholm), no. 29 (London, Vienna)
Copenhagen, Palais de Charlottenborg, Klar Form, December 1951, no. 114
Hanover, Kestnergesellschaft, Alexander Calder: Stabiles, Mobiles, Gouaches, March - May 1954, p. 3, no. 18, illustrated
Frankfurt, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Alexander Calder, July - August 1957
Helsinki, Galerie Artek, Alexander Calder: Exposition, January - June 1958, no. 21
London, Tate Gallery, Alexander Calder: Sculpture-Mobiles, July - August 1962, p. 20, no. 40, illustrated
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; St. Louis, Washington University Art Gallery; Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Center; and Des Moines, Des Moines Art Center, Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, November 1964 - June 1965, p. 8, no. 214
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Atlanta, The High Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; and Dallas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Calder's Universe, October 1976 - October 1977, p. 314, illustrated
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; and San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Alexander Calder: 1898 - 1976, September - December 1998, p. 249, no. 202, illustrated in color
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Calder in Connecticut, April - August 2000, p. 80, no. 83, illustrated
"Make it from a Pattern--and Make it in Suede," Harper's Bazaar, 1947, p. 130, illustrated in color
André Masson, "L'atelier de Calder," Cahiers d'Art, Vol. 24, no. 2, 1949, p. 277, illustrated
H.H. Arnason, Calder, Princeton, 1966, p. 114 (text)
Exh. Cat., Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Alexander Calder: Retrospective, 1995, p. 67, illustrated
Giovanni Carandente, Teodelapio: Alexander Calder, Milan, 1996, p. 29 (text) and p. 73, illustrated
Pedro Guerrero, Pedro E. Guerrero, A Photographer's Journey, New York, 2007, p. 10, illustrated in color
Arnauld Pierre, Calder: Mouvement et Réalité, Paris, 2009, p. 223, illustrated
Alexander S.C. Rower, ed., Calder by Matter, Paris, 2013, pp. 248-249, illustrated
Exh. Cat., London, Pace Gallery, Calder After the War, 2013, p. 149, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic, 2013, p. 190, illustrated in color (in installation at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
Alexander S.C. Rower, "Calder in France," Cahiers d'Art, no. 1, 2015, p. 153, illustrated
incised with the artist's monogram
painted sheet metal
35 1/4 by 32 by 20 1/4 in. 89.5 by 81.3 by 51.4 cm.
Executed in 1947.
