Modern Renaissance: A Cross-Category Sale
Modern Renaissance: A Cross-Category Sale
Alexander Calder
Moths I | 《蛾》
Auction Closed
March 25, 08:05 PM GMT
Estimate
1,800,000 - 2,500,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Alexander Calder
亞歷山大・考爾德
1898 - 1976
Moths I
《蛾》
incised with the artist's monogram on the second largest element
款識：藝術家簽名及姓名縮寫
painted sheet metal, rod and wire
著色金屬片、金屬杆及金屬絲
88.9 by 114.3 by 30.4 cm. 35 by 45 by 12 in.
89 x 106.6 公分；35 x 42 英寸
Executed in 1947.
1947年作
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A03769.
Curt Valentin Gallery, New York
Paul Lester Wiener and Ingeborg ten Haeff, New York (acquired from the above circa 1951)
Private Collection, New York (thence by descent from the above in 1968)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
A. S. C. Rower, Calder by Matter, Paris 2013, p. 234, illustrated (in the artist's studio)
Anon., 'At Home with Alexander Calder', Upstate Diary: Insight & Inspiration From Our Creative Landscape, Issue 2, 21 April 2016, p. 34, illustrated (in the artist's studio)