Sale 3791
New York
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11 November 2015
Price realised
USD 545,000
Estimate
Alexander Calder (1898-1976) Six-Footed Beastie signed with artist's monogram 'CA' (on the base) standing mobile--sheet metal, wire and paint 7 x 7 x 2 in. (17.7 x 17.7 x 5 cm.) Executed circa 1960s.
Provenance
Perls Galleries, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1960s
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Exhibited
Greenwich, Bruce Museum, The Mobile, The Stabile, The Animal: Wit in the Art of Alexander Calder, September-December 1995, p. 33 (illustrated).
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A08126.
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