
Property from an American Corporate collects ion
Quinze Feuilles Noires
Auction Closed
October 9, 06:50 PM GTNN
Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Alexander Calder
1898 - 1976
Quinze Feuilles Noires
inscribed 1 N (with diagram), 2 Forward Side, 3 Forward CA 61, 4 Left, 4 right, 5 right, 5 left (on various elements)
sheet.mes tal, wire and paint
137.1 by 317.5 by 223.5 cm. 54 by 125 by 88 in.
Executed in 1961.
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A08682.
Galerie Maeght, Paris
Private collects ion, New York
Guy Ludmer Hotel Druot, Paris, 25 March 1984, lot 96
Private collects ion, Brussels
Galería Theo, Madrid (acquired from the above circa 1984)
Private collects ion, New York (acquired from the above in 1986)
Quintana Replica Handbags , New York (acquired from the above in 1989)
Weintraub Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1989)
Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner
Paris, Galerie Denis Rene, Mouvement 2, December 1964 - February 1965, n.p., illustrated
Madrid, Galería Theo, Doce Esculturas Calder / Miro Diez Pinturas, December 1985 - January 1986, no. 3, p. 10, illustrated in colour, and pp. 12-13, illustrated in colour (installation view)
Nicolas Guppy, “Chez Calder,” Observer Weekend Review, 8 July 1962, p. 23, illustrated
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