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Untitled (maquette)
Details
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Untitled (maquette)
stabile—sheet metal and bolts
36 1/4 x 29 1/2 x 24 1/4 in. (92 x 74.9 x 61.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1975.
Untitled (maquette)
stabile—sheet metal and bolts
36 1/4 x 29 1/2 x 24 1/4 in. (92 x 74.9 x 61.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1975.
Provenance
O'Hara Gallery, New York
Anon. sale; Tajan, Paris, 28 July 2009, lot 40
Private collection, London
Opera Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above, 2012.
Anon. sale; Tajan, Paris, 28 July 2009, lot 40
Private collection, London
Opera Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above, 2012.
Exhibited
New York, Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, Calder: Four Maquettes, Two Stabiles & a Little Bird Too, September-October 2002.
Santa Fe and Dallas, Gerald Peters Gallery, The Whimsical World of Alexander Calder, July-October 2003.
Milan, Galeria Gió Marconi, Alexander Calder 60s-70s, April-May 2005.
Munich, Galerie Thomas, Alexander Calder-Joan Miro, May-July 2010, p. 21 (illustrated in color).
Santa Fe and Dallas, Gerald Peters Gallery, The Whimsical World of Alexander Calder, July-October 2003.
Milan, Galeria Gió Marconi, Alexander Calder 60s-70s, April-May 2005.
Munich, Galerie Thomas, Alexander Calder-Joan Miro, May-July 2010, p. 21 (illustrated in color).
Further Details
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A15520.
"Whereas the standing mobile's base mediates between the earth and the air, the stabiles remain rooted to the earth, as does man himself. Like the mobiles, they activate the surrounding space and share their quality of animation, which derives from the organic character of the shapes and the lively outlines of the forms (a quality hard to actually define but essential in all the work). But the stabiles are also the reverse of the mobiles -static, with the potential for movement but not moving. The sense of 'potential energy,' of energy barely contained, endows them with a powerful presence" (M. Glimcher, "Alexander Calder: Toward Monumentalism," Alexander Calder: The 50s, Pace Wildenstein, exh. cat., 1995, pp. 16-17) .
"Whereas the standing mobile's base mediates between the earth and the air, the stabiles remain rooted to the earth, as does man himself. Like the mobiles, they activate the surrounding space and share their quality of animation, which derives from the organic character of the shapes and the lively outlines of the forms (a quality hard to actually define but essential in all the work). But the stabiles are also the reverse of the mobiles -static, with the potential for movement but not moving. The sense of 'potential energy,' of energy barely contained, endows them with a powerful presence" (M. Glimcher, "Alexander Calder: Toward Monumentalism," Alexander Calder: The 50s, Pace Wildenstein, exh. cat., 1995, pp. 16-17) .
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