A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Day Auction

A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Day Auction

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Alexander Calder

Tightrope Worker

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Alexander Calder

1898 - 1976


Tightrope Worker

incised A Calder (on the proper left leg); numbered 2/6 (on each element)

bronze, rod and string

22 by 30 by 15 ½ in.

55.9 by 76.2 by 39.4 cm.

Conceived in 1944 and cast in 1969.


This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A06601.2.

Perls Galleries, New York

Eric Estorick, London (acquired from the above in 1969)

Grosvenor Gallery, London

William Beadleston Inc., New York

Gasiunasen Gallery, Palm Beach

Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., New York, Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, Recent Work by Alexander Calder, 1944, no. 27, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Kunsthalle Bern (and traveling), Calder, Léger, Bodmer, Leuppi, 1947, no. 28, illustration of another cast

“Calder,” Interiors, December 1949, illustration of another cast

Alexander Calder, Calder: An Autobiography with Pictures, London, 1967, pp. 195-96

Exh. Cat., New York, Perls Galleries, Alexander Calder: Bronze Sculptures of 1944, 1969, no. 4, p. 6, illustration of another cast (titled Woman on Cord)

Exh. Cat., Basel, Galerie d’art moderne Marie-Suzanne Feigel, Alexander Calder: mobiles, mobiles-stabiles, bronzes, gouaches et lithographies, 1971, no. 2, illustration of another cast

Jean Lipman and Nancy Foote, eds., Calder’s Circus, New York, 1972, p. 71, illustration of another cast (titled Woman on Cord)

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (and traveling), Calder’s Universe, 1976-77, p. 219, illustration of another cast

Jean Lipman and Margaret Aspin Wall, Alexander Calder and His Magical Mobiles, New York, 1981, p. 36, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Turin, Palazzo a Vela, Calder, Mostra retrospettiva, 1983, no. 177, p. 106, illustration of another cast

Giovanni Carandente, Calder, Milan, 1983, no. 177, p. 106, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Alexander Calder 1898-1976, 1996, no. 70, p. 102, illustration of another cast; pp. 216-17

“Calder,” Connaissance des Arts, Paris, 1996, no. 10, p. 9, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., New York, L&M Arts, Calder: The Complete Bronzes, 2012, no. 37, pp. 96-97, illustration in color of another cast; p. 129 

London, Grosvenor Gallery, Henry Moore Alexander Calder, 1995, no. 19, illustrated