ALEXANDER CALDER | Mobile Pin with Key

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 1964

Greenwich, Bruce Museum, The Mobile, The Stabile, The Animal: Wit in the Art of Alexander Calder, September - December 1995, cat. no. 7, p. 36, illustrated
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Calder in Connecticut, April - August 2000, cat. no. 38

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. There is evidence of oxidation in the joints and on the hanging elements, inherent to the artist's chosen medium and process. Under raking light, minor and unobtrusive surface scratches are visible.
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This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A16648.