Alexander Calder

Thin Black Stabile

Auction Closed

May 13, 09:05 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection, Chicago

Alexander Calder

1898 - 1976

Thin Black Stabile

sheet metal, bolts and paint

34 by 21 ¾ by 19 ½ in. 86.4 by 55.2 by 49.5 cm.

Executed in 1941.

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A14526.

Collection of Louis Carré, Paris (gift of the artist in 1946)
Galerie Louis Carré & Cie, Paris
Private Collection, New York
Sotheby's, New York, 2 May 1985, Lot 21
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Louis Carré & Cie, Alexander Calder: Mobiles, Stabiles, Constellation, October - November 1946, cat. no. 11