Bird

Details

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Bird
standing mobile—silver and silver wire
8 ½ x 9 x 8 in. (21.6 x 22.9 x 20.3 cm.)
Executed circa 1940.

Provenance

Perls Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, Work from 1925-1974, October-December 1974, p. 21.

Further Details

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A12871.

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"A mobile in motion leaves behind an invisible wake behind it, or rather, each element leaves an individual wake behind its individual self. Sometimes these wakes are concentrated within each other, and sometimes they are deployed” -- Alexander Calder

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