Lot 147
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Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
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Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

Black Detector

Details
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Black Detector
signed with the artist's initials 'CA' (on the base)
painted metal, brass and wire
4 3/8 x 6 x 3 ¾in. (11.1 x 15.2 x 9.5cm.)
Executed in 1960
Provenance
Perls Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1961.
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Further Details
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A15985.

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Lot Essay

When I have used spheres and discs, I have intended that they should represent more than what they just are. More or less as the earth is a sphere, but also has some miles of gas about it, volcanoes upon it, and the moon making circles around it, and as the sun is a sphere—but also is a source of intense heat, the effect of which is felt at great distances. A ball of wood or a disc of metal is rather a dull object without this sense of something emanating from it.
(A. Calder, quoted in Museum of Modern Art Bulletin, vol. 18, no. 3, Spring 1951).

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