Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

Spherical Triangle (Maquette)

Details

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Spherical Triangle (Maquette)
standing mobile--painted sheet metal, wire and lead
height: 19¾ in. (50.2 cm.)
span: 10 in. (25.4 cm.)
Executed in 1939.

Provenance

Gift of the artist
James Johnson Sweeney, New York
Siadhal Sweeney, Ireland
His sale; Sotheby's, New York, 2 November 1994, lot 94
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Calder Mobiles-Stabiles, May 1939, no. 3 (illustrated).

Lot Essay

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A12606.

This work is one of the three maquettes that the artist made in various sizes before completing the final outdoor version which measures eight feet tall. Calder gave this version to James Johnson Sweeney, the influential curator of the Museum of Modern Art, and the work remained in his family until 1994.

Spherical Triangle (Maquette)

Lot Essay

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