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Alexander Calder
Flower Seeds
- Estimate
- $35,000 - 45,000
$57,500
Lot Details
gouache on paper
22 x 30 1/2 in. (55.9 x 77.5 cm.)
Signed and dated "Calder 68" lower right. This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation under application number A06136.
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Catalogue Essay
I like black and white, that's one thing and then, black and white and red, red's very...it's the only color that really counts somehow.
Alexander Calder
(Oral history interview with Alexander Calder, 1971 Oct. 26, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.)
Alexander Calder
(Oral history interview with Alexander Calder, 1971 Oct. 26, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.)
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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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