The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction
The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction
Alexander Calder
Red Comber
Auction Closed
November 9, 12:13 AM GMT
Estimate
1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Alexander Calder
(1898 - 1976)
Red Comber
incised with the artist's monogram (on the base)
sheet metal, brass, wire and paint
21 ¾ by 24 ½ by 8 ¼ in. 55.2 by 62.2 by 21 cm.
Executed in 1962.
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A04809.
Perls Galleries, New York
Brook Street Gallery, London (acquired in 1965)
Private Collection, Bloomfield Hills
Donald Morris Gallery, Inc., Birmingham
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in February 1987 by the present owner
Brook Street Gallery, London (acquired in 1965)
Private Collection, Bloomfield Hills
Donald Morris Gallery, Inc., Birmingham
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in February 1987 by the present owner
Martin Filler, "An Artful Oasis," House Beautiful, no. 140, March 1998, pp. 74-83, illustrated in color
Julie L. Belcove, "Collected Wisdom," Architectural Digest, December 2011, pp. 130, 133, illustrated in color
Mark Stephen Archer, The New Formal: Interiors by James Aman, New York, 2016, pp. 126, 130, 131, illustrated in color (in installation)
Julie L. Belcove, "Collected Wisdom," Architectural Digest, December 2011, pp. 130, 133, illustrated in color
Mark Stephen Archer, The New Formal: Interiors by James Aman, New York, 2016, pp. 126, 130, 131, illustrated in color (in installation)
New York, Barbara Mathes Gallery, Contemporary Group Show, January - February 1987
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Five Decades of Passion Part One: The Eye of the Collector, 1968-1988, January - April 2009
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Five Decades of Passion Part One: The Eye of the Collector, 1968-1988, January - April 2009