Alexander Calder

Flying Colors (Maquette)

Lot Closed

July 19, 03:27 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Alexander Calder

1898-1976

Flying Colors (Maquette)

signed Calder (under the airplane’s left wing)

gouache on fiberglass model airplane with chrome stand

airplane: 17 by 72 by 79 in. (43 by 182.9 by 200.7 cm.)

overall (with stand): 63 by 72 by 79 in. (160 by 182.9 by 200.7 cm.)

Executed in 1973.

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A18748.

Please note that the condition report has been updated.

Braniff International, Dallas (commissioned from the artist in 1973)

Jay Pritzker, Chicago

Bruce Leadbetter, Chicago (acquired from the above in 1983)

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1988)

Christie's New York, 12 May 2005, lot 300 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

New York, Guggenheim, Calder Airplanes, August – October 1973