Property from the Neiman Marcus collects ion
Alexander Calder
Mariposa
Auction Closed
December 9, 12:09 AM GTNN
Estimate
6,000,000 - 8,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Neiman Marcus collects ion
Alexander Calder
1898 - 1976
Mariposa
sheet.mes tal, rod and paint
125 by 122 in. 317.5 by 309.9 cm,
Executed in 1951, this work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A17840.
Acquired by the present owner from the artist in 1951
Frank X. Tolbert, Neiman-Marcus, Texas: The Story of the Proud Dallas Store, New York 1953, n.p., illustrated (with the artist, as installed in Neiman Marcus at Preston Center, Dallas), n.p., illustrated (installed in Neiman Marcus at Preston Center, Dallas), and n.p. (text)
Alex J. Taylor, "The Calder Problem: Mobiles, Modern Taste, and Mass Culture," Oxford Art Journal, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2014, p. 37 (text)
Steffen Heemann, ed., Global Corporate collects ions, Cologne 2015, p. 346, illustrated in color
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