Details
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
The Ghost
sheet metal, wire and paint
16 3/4 x 9 3/4 x 6in. (42.5 x 24.8 x 15.2cm.)
Executed in 1945
Provenance
Galerie Louis Carré, Paris.
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern.
Private Collection, Bern (acquired from the above in 1947).
Thence by descent to the present owner in 1976.
Literature
Calder After the War, exh. cat., London, Pace Gallery, 2013 (illustrated, p. 142).
Alexander Calder: Multum in Parvo, exh. cat., New York, Dominique Levy Gallery, 2015 (illustrated, p. 16).
Alexander Calder: Minimal / Maximal, exh. cat., Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, 2021, no. 38 (illustrated, p. 77).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, Alexander Calder Mobiles, Stabiles, Constellations, 1946.
Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Calder, Léger, Bodmer, Leuppi, 1947, p. 5, no. 52.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Alexander Calder / Fernand Léger 1947, p. 6, no. 52.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Elan vital oder Das Auge Der Eros: Kandinsky, Klee, Arp, Miro, Calder, 1994, p. 553, no. 187 (illustrated in color, pl. 443).
Special Notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
Post Lot Text
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A14659.
Details
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
The Ghost
sheet metal, wire and paint
16 3/4 x 9 3/4 x 6in. (42.5 x 24.8 x 15.2cm.)
Executed in 1945
Provenance
Galerie Louis Carré, Paris.
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern.
Private Collection, Bern (acquired from the above in 1947).
Thence by descent to the present owner in 1976.
Literature
Calder After the War, exh. cat., London, Pace Gallery, 2013 (illustrated, p. 142).
Alexander Calder: Multum in Parvo, exh. cat., New York, Dominique Levy Gallery, 2015 (illustrated, p. 16).
Alexander Calder: Minimal / Maximal, exh. cat., Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, 2021, no. 38 (illustrated, p. 77).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, Alexander Calder Mobiles, Stabiles, Constellations, 1946.
Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Calder, Léger, Bodmer, Leuppi, 1947, p. 5, no. 52.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Alexander Calder / Fernand Léger 1947, p. 6, no. 52.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Elan vital oder Das Auge Der Eros: Kandinsky, Klee, Arp, Miro, Calder, 1994, p. 553, no. 187 (illustrated in color, pl. 443).
Special Notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
Post Lot Text
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A14659.
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