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Property from a Prestigious Private European Collection

Alexander Calder

Blue Moon

Auction Closed

May 16, 12:52 AM GMT

Estimate

7,000,000 - 10,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Prestigious Private European Collection


Alexander Calder

1898 - 1976


Blue Moon

incised with the artist’s monogram and dated 62 (on the red circular element)

sheet metal, rod, wire and paint

60 by 300 in.

152.4 by 762 cm.

Executed in 1962.


This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A13196.

Galerie Maeght, Paris

Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 1975)

Thence by descent to the present owner

George Rickey, “Calder in London,” Arts Magazine, vol. 36, no. 10, September 1962, p. 23, illustrated (in installation image of 1962 Tate Gallery exhibition)

“A Sculptor of Mobiles: Mr. Calder’s Joyful Tate Exhibition,” The Times, 4 July 1962, p. 15, illustrated (in installation image of 1962 Tate Gallery exhibition)

John M. Nash, “Sculptures Driven by Motors,” Yorkshire Post, 16 July 1962, illustrated (in installation image of 1962 Tate Gallery exhibition)

Edward Lucie Smith, “Many Dimensions,” The Listener, 19 July 1962, p. 106, illustrated (in installation image of 1962 Tate Gallery exhibition)

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Atlanta, The High Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center and Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Calder's Universe, p. 266, illustrated (in installation image of 1962 Tate Gallery exhibition)

Gene Lipman and Margaret Aspinwall eds., Alexander Calder and His Magical Mobiles, New York, 1981, p. 8, illustrated (in installation image of 1962 Tate Gallery exhibition)

Exh. Cat., Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Alexander Calder: Avant-Garde in Motion, 2013, p. 106

London, Tate Gallery, Alexander Calder: Sculpture–Mobiles, 1962, no. 71, p. 26