Bracelet

Details

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Bracelet
silver wire
6 x 3 1/4 x 2 1/8 in. (15.2 x 8.2 x 5.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1960.

Provenance

Perls Galleries, New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, 1969
Mary Rockefeller Morgan, circa 1970s
Mary Rockefeller Morgan Charitable Trust

Further Details

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A16322.

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Lot Essay

[Calder] instinctively filtered forms patterns and symbols from organic sources and early societies into his pieces often connecting the wearier to something primal"
-A.S.C. Rower, Calder Jewelry, exh. cat. Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, 2008, p. 17.

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