Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

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Details

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Untitled
painted metal sheet and brass wire
4 x 3 ½ x 2 ½in. (10.1 x 8.8 x 6.3cm.)
Executed circa 1950

Provenance

Private Collection (a gift from the artist circa 1951).
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Further Details

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A26193.

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'An abstract configuration of articulated parts in which each part or segment is free to describe a movement of its own; but it is a motion conditioned by, yet distinct from, the movement of all the other articulated segments of which the total construction is made-up' (A. Calder, quoted in J. Baal-Teshuva, Alexander Calder: 1898-1976, Cologne 2002, p. 23).

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