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PROPERTY FROM THE WOLF FAMILY COLLECTION
Flying Colors (Maquette)
Lot Closed
July 19, 03:27 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Alexander Calder
1898-1976
Flying Colors (Maquette)
signed Calder (under the airplane’s left wing)
gouache on fiberglass model airplane with chrome stand
airplane: 17 by 72 by 79 in. (43 by 182.9 by 200.7 cm.)
overall (with stand): 63 by 72 by 79 in. (160 by 182.9 by 200.7 cm.)
Executed in 1973.
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A18748.
Braniff International, Dallas (commissioned from the artist in 1973)
Jay Pritzker, Chicago
Bruce Leadbetter, Chicago (acquired from the above in 1983)
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1988)
Christie's New York, 12 May 2005, lot 300 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Guggenheim, Calder Airplanes, August – October 1973