A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Day Auction
A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Day Auction
Tightrope Worker
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Alexander Calder
1898 - 1976
Tightrope Worker
incised A Calder (on the proper left leg); numbered 2/6 (on each element)
bronze, rod and string
22 by 30 by 15 ½ in.
55.9 by 76.2 by 39.4 cm.
Conceived in 1944 and cast in 1969.
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A06601.2.
Perls Galleries, New York
Eric Estorick, London (acquired from the above in 1969)
Grosvenor Gallery, London
William Beadleston Inc., New York
Gasiunasen Gallery, Palm Beach
Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner
Exh. Cat., New York, Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, Recent Work by Alexander Calder, 1944, no. 27, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Kunsthalle Bern (and traveling), Calder, Léger, Bodmer, Leuppi, 1947, no. 28, illustration of another cast
“Calder,” Interiors, December 1949, illustration of another cast
Alexander Calder, Calder: An Autobiography with Pictures, London, 1967, pp. 195-96
Exh. Cat., New York, Perls Galleries, Alexander Calder: Bronze Sculptures of 1944, 1969, no. 4, p. 6, illustration of another cast (titled Woman on Cord)
Exh. Cat., Basel, Galerie d’art moderne Marie-Suzanne Feigel, Alexander Calder: mobiles, mobiles-stabiles, bronzes, gouaches et lithographies, 1971, no. 2, illustration of another cast
Jean Lipman and Nancy Foote, eds., Calder’s Circus, New York, 1972, p. 71, illustration of another cast (titled Woman on Cord)
Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (and traveling), Calder’s Universe, 1976-77, p. 219, illustration of another cast
Jean Lipman and Margaret Aspin Wall, Alexander Calder and His Magical Mobiles, New York, 1981, p. 36, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Turin, Palazzo a Vela, Calder, Mostra retrospettiva, 1983, no. 177, p. 106, illustration of another cast
Giovanni Carandente, Calder, Milan, 1983, no. 177, p. 106, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Alexander Calder 1898-1976, 1996, no. 70, p. 102, illustration of another cast; pp. 216-17
“Calder,” Connaissance des Arts, Paris, 1996, no. 10, p. 9, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., New York, L&M Arts, Calder: The Complete Bronzes, 2012, no. 37, pp. 96-97, illustration in color of another cast; p. 129
London, Grosvenor Gallery, Henry Moore Alexander Calder, 1995, no. 19, illustrated
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