ALEXANDER CALDER | Untitled

Galerie Maeght, Paris
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris
Private Collection, Illinois (acquired from the above in 1964)
Hokin Gallery, Chicago
Russeck Gallery, Palm Beach (acquired from the above in 2002)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005

Santa Fe, Gerald Peters Gallery; Dallas, Gerald Peters Gallery, The Whimsical World of Alexander Calder, July - October 2003

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. The elements move smoothly and freely. There is evidence of wear and handling, especially along the base which exhibits some light rusting, and minor pinpoint losses to the elements and painted wire. There is light evidence of pitting on the brass element.
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"Excluding every anecdotal element, Calder reduces the object to a few simple lines carving out elementary colors. This object, employing only the properties of movement—not represented movement but real movement—is miraculously brought to life in the most concrete shapes and restores to us the evolution of the celestial bodies, the rustling of foliage, the memory of caresses.”
André Breton in Exh. Cat., New York, L&M Arts, Tanguy, Calder: Between Surrealism and Abstraction, 2010, p. 152

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A18333.