Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

Dinner Bell

细节

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Dinner Bell
glass, wire, wood and cork assemblage
8 x 3 x 3 in. (20.3 x 7.5 x 7.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1945.

来源

Gift of the artist
Malcolm Cowley, Connecticut
Private collection, New York, by descent
Acquired from the above by the present owner

展览

Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Calder in Connecticut, April-August 2000, pp. 66 and 166, no. 65, fig. 62 (illustrated in color).

拍品专文

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A15355.

Calder made this dinner bell out of a milk jar for his friend Malcolm Cowley, who was hard of hearing, as a jovial and useful way of calling him to dinner.