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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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