Lot Essay
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A01134.4.
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On One Knee
Details
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
On One Knee
signed and numbered 'A Calder 4/6' (on the top of the base)
standing mobile--bronze with brown patina
44½ x 50 x 20 in. (113 x 127 x 51 cm.)
Conceived in 1944 and cast in 1968. This work is number four from an edition of six.
On One Knee
signed and numbered 'A Calder 4/6' (on the top of the base)
standing mobile--bronze with brown patina
44½ x 50 x 20 in. (113 x 127 x 51 cm.)
Conceived in 1944 and cast in 1968. This work is number four from an edition of six.
Provenance
Perls Galleries, New York
Estate of Eric Estorick, London
Estate of Eric Estorick, London
Literature
A Recent Work by Alexander Calder, exh. cat., Buchholz/Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, 1944, p. 4 (drawing illustrated).
"Calder," Interiors, December 1949 (aluminum cast illustrated).
A. Calder, Calder: An Autobiography with Pictures, London, 1967, pp. 195-196 (another cast illustrated).
Perls Galleries, Alexander Calder: Bronze Sculptures of 1944, exh. cat., New York, 1969, no. 1 (another cast illustrated).
G. Carandente, Calder, Milan, 1983, p. 105, no. 173 (another cast illustrated).
Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., Palazzo a Vela, Turin, 1983, p. 105 (another cast illustrated).
Motion/Emotion The Art of Alexander Calder, exh. cat., O'Hara Gallery, New York, 1999, p. 25 (another cast illustrated in color).
E. M. Zafran, Calder in Connecticut, New York, 2000, p. 75 (aluminum cast illustrated).
"Calder," Interiors, December 1949 (aluminum cast illustrated).
A. Calder, Calder: An Autobiography with Pictures, London, 1967, pp. 195-196 (another cast illustrated).
Perls Galleries, Alexander Calder: Bronze Sculptures of 1944, exh. cat., New York, 1969, no. 1 (another cast illustrated).
G. Carandente, Calder, Milan, 1983, p. 105, no. 173 (another cast illustrated).
Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., Palazzo a Vela, Turin, 1983, p. 105 (another cast illustrated).
Motion/Emotion The Art of Alexander Calder, exh. cat., O'Hara Gallery, New York, 1999, p. 25 (another cast illustrated in color).
E. M. Zafran, Calder in Connecticut, New York, 2000, p. 75 (aluminum cast illustrated).
Exhibited
London, Grosvenor Gallery, Henry Moore O.M. Alexander Calder, March-April 1995, no. 18 (illustrated).