Lot 101
  • 101

Alexander Calder

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Alexander Calder
  • Untitled (Necklace)
  • silver and silver wire
  • Loop: 34 in. 86.4 cm.
  • Overall: 40 1/2 by 4 1/2 in. 102.9 by 11.4 cm.
  • Executed circa 1945, this work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A09756.

Provenance

Jean Vilar, Paris (gift of the artist circa 1950)
By descent to the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs; Mexico City, El Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporáneo; Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Calder Intime, February 1989 - August 1990, p. 283, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There are some light tarnishes to the silver, which is to be expected of a work this age. There are some light and scattered surface abrasions visible under raking light.
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