Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

Model for Wichita Mobile

Details

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Model for Wichita Mobile
signed with monogram 'CA' (on the upper red element)
hanging mobile--painted sheet metal and wire
height: 13½ in. (34.2 cm.)
span: 10½ in. (26.6 cm.)
Executed in 1973.

Provenance

Perls Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1986

Lot Essay

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A07728.

This hanging mobile is a maquette for a larger work called Elements de montables that Calder created in 1975 for the Fourth National Bank and Trust Company in Wichita, Kansas.

Model for Wichita Mobile

Lot Essay

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