Lot Essay
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A02663.
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Five Works of American Surrealism from the Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection
"The Surrealists cultivate the fantastic, the mysterious, and the macabre, and their work has been colored to a considerable extent by the ideas of the psychoanalysts...Surrealism has given the artist a new daring in the use of narrative, and an enhanced power of emotional statement through unusual handling" (H. Cahill quoted in M. Sawin and W. Jeffett, Surrealism in America During the 1930s and 1940s: Selections from the Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection, p. 10).
Property from the Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
A Length of Cable
Details
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
A Length of Cable
signed and dated 'Calder 1932' (lower right)
gouache and pen and black ink on paper
22¾ x 30¾ in. (58 x 78 cm.)
Drawn in 1932
A Length of Cable
signed and dated 'Calder 1932' (lower right)
gouache and pen and black ink on paper
22¾ x 30¾ in. (58 x 78 cm.)
Drawn in 1932
Provenance
Perls Galleries, New York.
Exhibited
Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Museum of Art, Calder and Miró, June-September 1998, p. 21 (illustrated).
M. Sawin and W. Jeffett, St. Petersburg, Salvador Dalí Museum; The David and Alfred Smart Museum, The University of Chicago, and Denis, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Surrealism in America During the 1930s and 1940s: Selections from the Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection, November 1999-September 2000, pp. 36 and 108-109 (illustrated in color, fig. 8).
M. Sawin and W. Jeffett, St. Petersburg, Salvador Dalí Museum; The David and Alfred Smart Museum, The University of Chicago, and Denis, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Surrealism in America During the 1930s and 1940s: Selections from the Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection, November 1999-September 2000, pp. 36 and 108-109 (illustrated in color, fig. 8).