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A Constellation of Forms: Property from a Prestigious Private Collection
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
The Blue Handle
Details
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
The Blue Handle
incised with the artist’s monogram and date ‘CA 75’ (on the base)
standing mobile—sheet metal, wire and paint
12 x 28 ½ x 6 ¼ in. (30.7 x 71.4 x 15.5 cm.)
Executed in 1975.
The Blue Handle
incised with the artist’s monogram and date ‘CA 75’ (on the base)
standing mobile—sheet metal, wire and paint
12 x 28 ½ x 6 ¼ in. (30.7 x 71.4 x 15.5 cm.)
Executed in 1975.
Provenance
Estate of the artist
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, 1978
Private collection, Florida, 1984
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York
Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, 1994
Solomon & Co. Fine Art, New York, 1994
Galerie Samuel, Paris, 1997
Private collection, Valencia, 1997
Private collection, New York
Rosenfeld Fine Art, New York
Private collection, Florida, 2014
By descent from the above to the present owner
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, 1978
Private collection, Florida, 1984
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York
Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, 1994
Solomon & Co. Fine Art, New York, 1994
Galerie Samuel, Paris, 1997
Private collection, Valencia, 1997
Private collection, New York
Rosenfeld Fine Art, New York
Private collection, Florida, 2014
By descent from the above to the present owner
Exhibited
Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art; Kita-kyushu Municipal Museum of Art; Kobe, Prefectural Museum of Modern Art and Yokohama City Gallery, Calder’s Universe, September 1979-March 1980, pp. 59 and 148, no. 29 (illustrated).
St. Louis, Greenberg Gallery and St. Louis, Missouri Botanical Garden, Calder in Retrospect, September-October 1983, p.5.
Hong Kong, Ho Gallery, Calder, September-October 1994.
St. Louis, Greenberg Gallery and St. Louis, Missouri Botanical Garden, Calder in Retrospect, September-October 1983, p.5.
Hong Kong, Ho Gallery, Calder, September-October 1994.
Further Details
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A02102.
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