Lot 195
  • 195

Alexander Calder

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Alexander Calder
  • Untitled
  • signed with the artist's monogram and dated 71
  • gouache on paper
  • 30 1/4 by 11 1/4 in.
  • 76.8 by 28.6 cm.
  • Executed in 1971, this work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A25192.

Provenance

Waddington and Tooth Galleries, London
Private Collection
Gift to the present owner from the above

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The edges of the sheet are deckled. The sheet is undulating slightly. There is some pigment shrinkage and loss in the 'C' of the artist's initials at the bottom right corner. The work is adhered verso to the backing board. The upper left corner is no longer adhered to the backing board. This work has not been examined out of the frame. Framed under Plexiglas.
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