Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Cycle Act
signed and dated 'Calder 1931' (lower right)
ink on paper
22½ x 30¾ in. (57 x 78 cm.)
Drawn in 1931.
Provenance
Perls Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1968
Literature
J. Lipman, ed., Calder's Circus, New York, 1972, p. 114 (illustrated).
N. Coward, The Guthrie Theater: Design for Living, Minneapolis, October 1977 n.p. (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Perls Galleries, Calder: Early Work--Rediscovered, November-December 1967.
Detroit Institute of the Arts, Alexander Calder: Prints, Drawings and Illustrated Books, October-November 1973.
Lot Essay
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A08355.
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