Three Legged Beastie

Details

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Three Legged Beastie
signed with the artist's initials 'CA' (on one the supports)
painted sheet metal
18 1/8in. (46cm.) high
Executed in 1960

Provenance

Frank Perls Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the early 1960s.

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Sale room notice

Please note that this work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A08275.
Please note that the correct title should read "Three Legged Beastie" and that the work was executed in 1960.

Lot Essay

'...and when I use two or more sheets if metal cut into shapes and mounted at angles to each other, I feel that there is a solid form, perhaps concave, perhaps convex, filling in the dihedral angles between them. I do not have a definite idea of what this would be like, I merely sense it and occupy myself with the shapes one actually sees.' (Alexander Calder as quoted in exh. cat. Alexander Calder Stabile, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York 1983, p. 3).

Three Legged Beastie

Lot Essay

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