LOT DETAILS

Materials:

standing mobile--painted sheet metal, rod and wire

Measurements:

91.73 in. (233.00 cm.) (height) by 80.98 in. (205.70 cm.) (width) by 89.02 in. (226.10 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, February-March 1946, no. 1. Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, Alexander Calder: Mobiles, Stabiles, Constellations, October-November 1946, p. 25, no. 7 (illustrated). Kunsthalle Bern, Calder, Léger, Bodmer, Leuppi, May 1947, no. 26 (illustrated). Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Alexander Calder/Fernand Léger, July-August 1947, p. 5, no. 26 (illustrated). Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, New Gallery, Calder, December 1950-January 1951. Kunsthalle Basel, Alexander Calder, May-June 1957, p. 17, no. 14 (illustrated). New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Ontario, Art Gallery of Toronto and Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, November 1964-October 1965, p. 8, no. 183 (New York); p. 28, no. 131 (Paris, illustrated). Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght; Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Alexander Calder: Retrospective, April-November 1969, p. 137, no. 61 (Saint-Paul-de-Vence, illustrated); no. 56 (Humlebaek, illustrated); no. 40 (Amsterdam, illustrated). Munich, Haus der Kunst and Kunsthaus Zurich, Calder, May-November 1975, p. 56, no. 63 (Munich); pp. 9 and 39, no. 40 (Zurich). Turin, Palazzo a Vela, Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, July-September 1983, p. 114, no. 200 (illustrated). Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Stockholm, Moderna Museet and Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Alexander Calder: Retrospective, October 1995-October 1996, p. 34, no. 86 (Humlebaek, illustrated); pp. 16 and 107, no. 51 (Stockholm, illustrated); pp. 45, 105 and 217, no. 51 (Paris, illustrated). Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Calder, November 1997-February 1998, p. 95 and 131, no. 71 (illustrated in color). Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Alexander Calder: 1898-1976, March-December 1998, pp. 238 and 291, no. 191, fig. 56 (illustrated). New York, Pace Gallery, Earthly Forms: The Biomorphic Sculpture of Arp, Calder and Noguchi, February-March 2000. Museo Guggenheim Bilbao; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Calder: Gravity and Grace, March 2003-February 2004, pp. 136, 180 and 256, no. 29 (illustrated in color). Basel, Fondation Beyeler and Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, Calder/Miró, May 2004-January 2005, pp. 221, 250 and 292, no. 63, fig. 120 (illustrated in color). New York, Pace Gallery, 50 Years at Pace, September-October 2010, p. 61, no. 38 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

R. Barotte, "Les sculptures de l'apprenti-sorcier Calder palpitent au soufflé d'un ventilateur: ce sont des 'mobiles' explique Jean-Pual Sartre," Quatre et Trois, 14 November 1946 (illustrated). H. Arnason and P. Guerrero, Calder, New York, 1966, p. 97 (illustrated). M. Ragon, Calder: Mobiles et Stabiles, Paris, 1967, p. 35, pl. 11 (illustrated). Alexander Calder, exh. cat., Berlin, Akademie der Künste, 1967, p. 47 (illustrated). J. Sweeney, Calder: The Artist, the Work, Boston, 1971, p. 64 (illustrated). J. Davidson, Calder an Autobiography with Pictures, New York, 1977, p. 188. "Calder," Beaux Arts Magazine, July 1996, p. 32 (illustrated). G. Carandente, Teodelapio: Alexander Calder, Milan, 1996, p. 26 (illustrated). Calder: Poetry in Motion, exh. cat., Seoul, Kukje Gallery, 2003 (illustrated in color and inside back cover). Calder in Brazil, exh. cat., São Paulo, Pinacoteca de Estado de São Paulo, 2006, pp. 52 and 173 (illustrated in color). Alexandre Calder en Touraine, exh. cat., Chteau de Tours, 2008, p. 33 (illustrated). A. Pierre, Calder: Mouvement et Réalité, Paris, 2009. pp. 299 and 309 (illustrated). Tanguy Calder: Between Surrealism and Abstraction, exh. cat., New York, L&M Arts, 2010, p. 72 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Estate of the Artist. Pace Wildenstein, New York. Acquired from the above by the present owner.