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Auction archive: Lot number 460

Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976) UntitledAlexander Calder (American, 1898-1976) Untitled

Estimate
US$40,000 - US$60,000
Price realised:
US$107,750
Auction archive: Lot number 460

Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976) UntitledAlexander Calder (American, 1898-1976) Untitled

Estimate
US$40,000 - US$60,000
Price realised:
US$107,750
Beschreibung:

Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976) Untitled, circa 1960 Initialed "CA" on the base. Polychromed standing mobile metal sculpture, height 8 in. (20.3 cm). Condition: Wear to surface. Provenance: From the artist to the White family, then to the present owner. N.B. Born to a family of artists, Calder began creating his own works at an early age. He explored several mediums early on, but found that sculpting with wire and metal to be his preferred form of expression. 'In the fall of 1931, a significant turning point in Calder's artistic career occurred when he created his first truly kinetic sculpture…The first of these objects moved by systems of crank and motors, and were dubbed 'mobiles' by Marcel Duchamp…(but) Calder soon abandoned the mechanical aspects of these works when he realized that he could fashion mobiles that would undulate on their own with the air's currents.' (www.calder.org) Calder achieved much success in his early career, his work being shown at galleries in Paris and Berlin as well as in New York. This called for several transatlantic crossings and it was on one of these trips that Calder met his wife Louisa. They were married in 1931. In 1933, they purchased a farmhouse in Roxbury, Connecticut–Calder converted an old icehouse on the property into his workspace. In 1941, the White family moved nearby. Leonie Geddes (White) describes the family's first meeting with Calder: 'We met Calder the first time, when we were flying kites on the hill between our two houses. He [Calder] saw the kites and was curious, and came over. He immediately asked us all to come over. We had friends visiting us. We went, had a drink, and discussed life in general. From then on, intermittently, we saw a great deal of them...On my son J.O.'s sixteenth birthday [Calder] gave him this wonderful present all wrapped up in a piece of brown paper. He opened it and it was a piece of cardboard with two pieces of a mobile, and he said, 'This is a do-it-yourself present. It's a perfectly wonderful mobile.' (from Roxbury Remembered, by Frederick Ungeheuer with Lewis and Ethel Hurlbut).

Auction archive: Lot number 460
Auction:
Datum:
20 May 2005
Auction house:
Bonhams | Skinner
Park Plaza 63
Boston, MA 02116
United States
+1 (0)617 3505400
+1 (0)617 3505429
Beschreibung:

Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976) Untitled, circa 1960 Initialed "CA" on the base. Polychromed standing mobile metal sculpture, height 8 in. (20.3 cm). Condition: Wear to surface. Provenance: From the artist to the White family, then to the present owner. N.B. Born to a family of artists, Calder began creating his own works at an early age. He explored several mediums early on, but found that sculpting with wire and metal to be his preferred form of expression. 'In the fall of 1931, a significant turning point in Calder's artistic career occurred when he created his first truly kinetic sculpture…The first of these objects moved by systems of crank and motors, and were dubbed 'mobiles' by Marcel Duchamp…(but) Calder soon abandoned the mechanical aspects of these works when he realized that he could fashion mobiles that would undulate on their own with the air's currents.' (www.calder.org) Calder achieved much success in his early career, his work being shown at galleries in Paris and Berlin as well as in New York. This called for several transatlantic crossings and it was on one of these trips that Calder met his wife Louisa. They were married in 1931. In 1933, they purchased a farmhouse in Roxbury, Connecticut–Calder converted an old icehouse on the property into his workspace. In 1941, the White family moved nearby. Leonie Geddes (White) describes the family's first meeting with Calder: 'We met Calder the first time, when we were flying kites on the hill between our two houses. He [Calder] saw the kites and was curious, and came over. He immediately asked us all to come over. We had friends visiting us. We went, had a drink, and discussed life in general. From then on, intermittently, we saw a great deal of them...On my son J.O.'s sixteenth birthday [Calder] gave him this wonderful present all wrapped up in a piece of brown paper. He opened it and it was a piece of cardboard with two pieces of a mobile, and he said, 'This is a do-it-yourself present. It's a perfectly wonderful mobile.' (from Roxbury Remembered, by Frederick Ungeheuer with Lewis and Ethel Hurlbut).

Auction archive: Lot number 460
Auction:
Datum:
20 May 2005
Auction house:
Bonhams | Skinner
Park Plaza 63
Boston, MA 02116
United States
+1 (0)617 3505400
+1 (0)617 3505429
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