Lot 178
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ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Property from the Family Collection of Robert and Elodie Osborn
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)

Triangles

Details
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Triangles
standing mobile—sheet metal and paint
21 1/4 x 21 x 14 in. (53.8 x 53.3 x 35.5 cm.)
Executed in 1957.
Provenance
Robert and Elodie Osborn, Salisbury, Connecticut, gift of the artist
By descent from the above to the present owner, 1995
Exhibited
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Calder in Connecticut, April-August 2000, p. 167, no. 106.
Further Details
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A15236.

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Lot Essay

"The sense of 'potential energy,' of energy barely contained, endows them [Calder’s stabiles] with a powerful presence." (M. Glimcher, “Alexander Calder: Toward Monumentalism,” Alexander Calder: The 50s, New York, 1995, pp. 16-17).

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