Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

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Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
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signed with the artist's monogram and dated 'CA 70' (on the base)
standing mobile--sheet metal, brass, wire and paint
16 x 14 x 11 in. (40.6 x 35.6 x 27.9 cm.)
Executed in 1970.

Provenance

Private collection, Saché, France, gift of the artist
Private collection, Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, 1976
Private collection, Denver, 2000
Acquired from the above the present owner

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This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A27415.

"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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