Art as Jewelry as Art
Art as Jewelry as Art
Property of a Private Collector
Alexander Calder
Flower
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Lot Details
Description
Property of a Private Collector
Alexander Calder
1898 - 1976
Flower
brass wire
10½ by 6¼ in.
26.7 by 15.9 cm.
Executed circa 1940.
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under the number A10778.
Perls Galleries, New York
Vera Neumnan, New York (acquired from the above in 1966)
Sotheby’s, New York, November 11, 1993, lot 250 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Michigan (acquired from the above sale)
Richard Gray Gallery, New York
Acquire by the present owner from the above in 2013
Gualtieri Di San Lazzaro, ed., "Homage à Alexander Calder" XXe Siècle Review (special issue), Paris, 1972, p. 93, illustrated (in group photo)
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs; Mexico City, El Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo; New York, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution; Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Calder Intime, February 1989 - August 1990, p. 302, illustrated in color
Louisa Guinness, Art as Jewelry: From Calder to Kapoor, London, 2018, p. 87, illustrated