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Materials:
standing mobile—sheet metal, wire and paint
Size Notes:
32 3?8 x 24 1?2 x 20 1?2 in. (82.2 x 62.2 x 52.1 cm.)
Description:
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Exhibited:
New York, Buchholz Gallery / Curt Valentin, Calder, November-December 1949, p. 7, no. 11. (exhibited in its original form) Paris, Galerie Maeght, Calder: Mobiles & Stabiles, June-July 1950, no. 38. Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Alexander Calder, October-November 1950, no. 30. Stockholm, Galerie Blanche, Alexander Calder: Mobiles and Stabiles, December 1950, no. 30. London, The Lefevre Gallery, Mobiles and Stabiles by Alexander Calder, January 1951, p. 5, no. 27. Vienna, Neue Galerie, Alexander Calder, May-June 1951, p. 7, no. 27. Hanover, Kestnergesellschaft, Alexander Calder: Stabiles, Mobiles, Gouachen, March-May 1954, p. 12, no. 9. Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Alexander Calder, May-July 1967, p. 48, no. 47. Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Calder, April-May 1969, p. 69, no. 95 (illustrated and exhibited in its current form). Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Art, Calder, June-September 1969, no. 83 (illustrated on the back cover). Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Calder, October-November 1969, p. 40, no. 64. New York, Pace Gallery, Calder's Calders, May-June 1985, p. 26 (illustrated).
Literature:
J. J. Sweeney, Alexander Calder, New York, 1951, p. 65 (illustrated in its original form). F. Jotterand, "Alexandre Calder ou la sculpture en mouvement", France Illustration, no. 416, November 1954, p. 67 (illustrated). G. Carandente, Calder: Mobiles and Stabiles, New York and Toronto, 1968, p. 35, pl. 5 (illustrated in its current form). A. Calder, J. J. Sweeney and D. Lelong, Calder: l'Artiste et l'Oeuvre, Paris, 1971, pp. 45 and 132 (illustrated). G. di San Lazzaro, ed., "Homage to Alexander Calder", XXe siècle Review, Paris, 1972, p. 88 (illustrated). M. Bruzeau, Calder à Saché, Paris, 1975, p. 31, pl. 37 (illustrated).
Provenance:
Estate of the artist Pace Gallery, New York, 1982 Private collection, 1985 Waddington Galleries, London Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1993