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Property from an American Corporate collects ion

Alexander Calder

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