Lot 317
  • 317

Alexander Calder

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Alexander Calder
  • Untitled
  • signed and dated 53
  • gouache on paper
  • 14 7/8 by 11 in. 37.8 by 28 cm.
  • Executed in 1953, this work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A18038.

Provenance

Private Collection, Rome (gift of the artist in 1968)
By descent to the present owner

Condition

This work is in good condition overall. The support is found paper with printed imagery on the reverse. The sheet is hinged on the reverse to the backing board. There is pale time-staining to the sheet and the left edge is slightly rough. There is an unobtrusive, 1 cm. tear repair near the lower, center-left of the sheet, evident from the reverse. Framed under glass.
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