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Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
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standing mobile--sheet metal, brass, wire and paint
16 x 12 x 3 ½ in. (40.6 x 30.4 x 8.9 cm.)
Executed circa 1951.

Provenance

Private collection, Litchfield, Connecticut, circa 1951, acquired directly from the artist
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1970s

Exhibited

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Calder intime, February-May 1989, p. 208 (illustrated).
New York, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, The Intimate World of Alexander Calder, October 1989-March 1990.
Greenwich, Bruce Museum, The Mobile, the Stabile, the Animal: Wit in the Art of Alexander Calder, September-December 1995, p. 33 (illustrated).
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Calder in Connecticut, April-August 2000, p. 118, no. 111, fig. 135 (illustrated).

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This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A14965.

"When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprises" (A. Calder, quoted in E. Hutton and O. Wick (eds.), Calder, London, 2004, p. 261).

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