Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Property from the Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

Drop Bracelet

Details
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Drop Bracelet
silver wire
3 1/8 x 2 3/4 x 2 1/4 in. (7.9 x 6.9 x 5.7 cm.)
Executed circa 1940.
Provenance
Perls Galleries, New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, 1969
Mary Rockefeller Morgan, circa 1970s
Mary Rockefeller Morgan Charitable Trust
Literature
D. Kenneth Winebrenner, Jewelry Making as an Art Expression, Scranton, 1953, p. xii, fig. 3 (illustrated).
Alexander S. C. Rower, ed., Calder by Matter, Paris, 2013, p. 153 (illustrated).
Gualtiere di San Lazzarro, ed., "Homage to Alexander Calder," XXe Siecle Review, Paris, 1972, p. 95 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Alexander Calder: Sculptures and Constructions, September 1943-January 1944, p. 53 (illustrated).
New York, Perls Galleries, Calder: Jewelry, November-December 1966.
Berlin, Akademie der Kunst, Alexander Calder, May-July 1967, p. 98, no. 197 (illustrated).
Further Details
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A09774.

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