Alexander Calder
Black Scorpion
signed with monogram and dated 'CA 60' (on the lowest element)
hanging mobile -- painted sheet metal and wire
height: 34 in.; span: 44 in.
Executed in 1960.
Provenance
Perls Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the parents of the present owner
Exhibited
New York, Perls Galleries, Alexander Calder/Joan Miró, February-April 1961, p. 11, no. 11.
Lot Essay
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A02502.
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