Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

Odalisque: Hommage à Matisse

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Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Odalisque: Hommage à Matisse
signed and dated 'A. Calder 1945' (on the overlap)
oil on canvas
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1945
Provenance
Perls Galleries, New York.
Exhibited
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Lot Essay

Odalisque is a whimsically surreal sendup of Matisse's great painting Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra), 1907 (Collection: Baltimore Museum of Art).

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York under application number A08376.

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