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Lot Essay
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A04641.
"A Mobile in motion leaves an invisible wake behind it, or rather, each element leaves an individual wake behind its individual self. Sometimes these wakes are contracted within each other, and sometimes they are deployed." (A. Calder, 1943, as quoted in A.S.C Rower, ed., Calder: Sculptor of Air, Rome, 2009, title page).
"A Mobile in motion leaves an invisible wake behind it, or rather, each element leaves an individual wake behind its individual self. Sometimes these wakes are contracted within each other, and sometimes they are deployed." (A. Calder, 1943, as quoted in A.S.C Rower, ed., Calder: Sculptor of Air, Rome, 2009, title page).