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Collector/Connoisseur: The Max N. Berry Collections
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
The Lion Tamer
Details
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
The Lion Tamer
signed and dated 'Calder 1932' (lower right)
ink on paper
22 ½ x 30 ½ in. (57.2 x 77.5 cm.)
Executed in 1932.
The Lion Tamer
signed and dated 'Calder 1932' (lower right)
ink on paper
22 ½ x 30 ½ in. (57.2 x 77.5 cm.)
Executed in 1932.
Provenance
Perls Galleries, New York
Mrs. Samuel Ungerleider, Jr., New York
Private collection, Larchmont, New York
Anon. sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 16 November 1995, lot 239
Spanierman Gallery, New York, 1995
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2001
Mrs. Samuel Ungerleider, Jr., New York
Private collection, Larchmont, New York
Anon. sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 16 November 1995, lot 239
Spanierman Gallery, New York, 1995
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2001
Exhibited
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Alexander Calder: Circus Drawings, Wire Sculpture and Toys, November-December 1964, p. 16, no. 25.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Calder’s Circus, April-June 1972, p. 3, no. 12.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Calder’s Circus, April-June 1972, p. 3, no. 12.
Further Details
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A14980.
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