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Alexander Calder
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- $30,000 - 40,000
$75,000
Lot Details
gouache and ink on paper
signed and dated "69 Calder" lower right
30 1/2 x 22 3/4 in. (77.5 x 57.8 cm.)
Executed in 1969, this work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A06212.
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Catalogue Essay
“What I produce is not precisely what I have in mind—but a sort of sketch, a man-made approximation. That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential … as long as they have something else in theirs.” Alexander Calder
Provenance
Alexander Calder
American | B. 1898 D. 1976Alexander Calder worked as an abstract sculptor and has been commonly referred to as the creator of the mobile. He employed industrious materials of wire and metal and transformed them into delicate geometric shapes that respond to the wind or float in air. Born into a family of sculptors, Calder created art from childhood and moved to Paris in 1926, where he became a pioneer of the international avant-garde. In addition to his mobiles, Calder produced an array of public constructions worldwide as well as drawings and paintings that feature the same brand of abstraction. Calder was born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania.
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