Slender Ribs (Maquette)

Details

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Slender Ribs (Maquette)
stabile--painted sheet metal
20¼ x 22½ x 17½ in. (56.5 x 57.2 x 44.5 cm.)
Executed in 1962.

Provenance

George J. Goostadt, Inc., New York
Michael L. Steinberg, Peoria
His sale; Sotheby's, New York, 9 November 1983, lot 42
Acquired at the above sale by the previous owner
By descent to the present owner

Literature

Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, Exh. Cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1964, p. 63 (monumental version illustrated).
H. H. Arnason, Calder, New York, 1966, p. 127 (monumental version illustrated).
J. Lipman, Calder's Universe, New York, 1976, p. 322 (monumental version illustrated).

Lot Essay

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A05257.

The present sculpture is a maquette for the monumental sculpture Slender Ribs, 1963, that is in the collection of the Louisiana Museum, Denmark.

Slender Ribs (Maquette)

Lot Essay

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