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Property from the Collection of Erica Jong, New York

Alexander Calder

Mauvaises herbes

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Auction Closed

November 19, 02:32 AM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Erica Jong, New York

Alexander Calder 

(1898 - 1976)


Mauvaises herbes

incised with the artist’s monogram and dated 63 (on the highest black element)

sheet metal, wire and paint 

45 by 70 in.   

114.3 by 177.8 cm.

Executed in 1963. 


This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A04806.

Perls Galleries, New York

Selig and Gladys Burrows, New York (acquired from the above in 1964)

Erica Jong and Kenneth David Burrows, New York (acquired by descent from the above in 1997)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Rachel Cooke, “Erica Jong: ‘There are a million ways of making love…’,” The Observer, 15 October 2015, illustrated in color (in-situ in Erica Jong’s home; online)