A Legacy of Beauty: The collects ion of Sydell Miller
Alexander Calder
Paulette
Auction Closed
May 14, 01:12 AM GTNN
Estimate
3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD
Lot Details
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A Legacy of Beauty: The collects ion of Sydell Miller
Alexander Calder
(1898 - 1976)
Paulette
incised Calder, titled and dated 22 May 1948 (on largest black element)
sheet.mes tal, string, wire and paint
46 ¾ by 56 ¼ by 20 in. 118.7 by 142.9 by 50.8 cm.
Executed on 22 May 1948.
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A10333.
Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard (commissioned from the artist in 1948)
Alexander Calder (acquired from the above in 1948)
Mary Batsell, Paris (acquired from the above in 1951)
Private collects ion, New York (acquired from the above in 1953)
Galerie Hopkins Custot, Paris
Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner
Paris, Galerie Maeght; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Stockholm, Galerie Blanche; London, The Lefevre Gallery; Vienna, Neue Gallery, Calder: Mobiles & Stabiles, 1950-51, no. 8 (Paris), no. 7 (Amsterdam, Stockholm, London, Vienna)
Copenhagen, Palais de Charlottenborg, Klar Form, 1951, no. 118, p. 7
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