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The Geri Brawerman Collection: A Tribute to Los Angeles and A Legacy of Giving

Alexander Calder

Critter with Curly Thumbs

Live auction begins on:

February 25, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Bid

500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Geri Brawerman Collection: A Tribute to Los Angeles and A Legacy of Giving

Alexander Calder

1898 - 1976


Critter with Curly Thumbs

incised with the artist’s initials and dated 74 (on the right foot)

sheet metal and paint

76 ½ by 37 ½ by 16 in.

194.3 by 95.3 by 40.6 cm.

Executed in 1974.


This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A10145.

Estate of the artist

The Pace Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1987)

Acquired from the above in 1987 by the present owner

New York, Perls Galleries, Alexander Calder: Crags and Critters of 1974, October – November 1974, no. 15, p.1, illustrated in color (in a group photo) and p. 10, illustrated 

Exh. Cat., New York, Pace Gallery, Calder’s Calders, May - June 1985, p. 48, illustrated