Sale 9780
New York
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14 November 2001
Price realised
USD 64,625
Estimate
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976) Untitled standing mobile--painted sheet metal and wire height: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) span: 6¼ in. (14.9 cm.) Executed circa 1955
Provenance
Gift of the artist to the previous owner.
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This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York under application number A09382.
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