Object on Davit (Maquette)

Details

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Object on Davit (Maquette)
signed with initials 'CA' (on the red element)
standing mobile--painted sheet metal and wire
height: 18¼ in. (46.3 cm.)
span: 20 in. (50.8 cm.)
Executed in 1938.

Provenance

Perls Galleries, New York
Galerie Godard Lefort, Montreal, 1969
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

M. Prather, Alexander Calder 1898-1976, exh. cat., National Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1998, p. 146, fig. 33 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A07927.

Calder created the present work, Object on Davit as a maquette for the monumental sculpture, Tripod, 1939, which was included in the 1944 exhibition Alexander Calder, Sculptures and Constructions at the Museum of Modern Art.

Object on Davit (Maquette)

Lot Essay

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