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Alexander Calder

Horse

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November 17, 10:26 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 400,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Alexander Calder

1898 - 1976

Horse

wire

8 1/2 by 11 1/4 by 3 1/2 in.

21.6 by 28.6 by 8.9 cm.

Executed in 1928.

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A08297.

Perls Galleries, New York

Private Collection, New Jersey (acquired from the above in September 1973)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Jean Lipman & Nancy Foote, Calder’s Circus, New York, 1972, p. 100, illustrated

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Alexander Calder: Circus Drawings, Wire Sculpture and Toys, 1964, cat. no. 51
Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Alexander Calder, 1967, cat. no. 91, p. 68