Lot Essay
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A08754.
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The Arthur and Anita Kahn Collection: A New York Story
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Red Crescent, Blue Post
Details
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Red Crescent, Blue Post
signed 'AC' (on the base)
standing mobile—sheet metal, wire and paint
16 x 23 x 8 in. (40.6 x 58.4 x 20.3 cm.)
Executed in 1955.
Red Crescent, Blue Post
signed 'AC' (on the base)
standing mobile—sheet metal, wire and paint
16 x 23 x 8 in. (40.6 x 58.4 x 20.3 cm.)
Executed in 1955.
Provenance
Perls Galleries, New York
BC Holland, Inc., Chicago
James Goodman, New York
Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm
Galerie Arta S.A., Geneva
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1973
BC Holland, Inc., Chicago
James Goodman, New York
Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm
Galerie Arta S.A., Geneva
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1973
Exhibited
Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, Alexander Calder, April-May 1966, no. 11.
New York, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, The Intimate World of Alexander Calder, October 1989-March 1990, p. 215 (illustrated in color).
New York, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, The Intimate World of Alexander Calder, October 1989-March 1990, p. 215 (illustrated in color).
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