Property from an American Corporate Collection
Quinze Feuilles Noires
Auction Closed
October 9, 06:50 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Alexander Calder
1898 - 1976
Quinze Feuilles Noires
inscribed 1 N (with diagram), 2 Forward Side, 3 Forward CA 61, 4 Left, 4 right, 5 right, 5 left (on various elements)
sheet metal, wire and paint
137.1 by 317.5 by 223.5 cm. 54 by 125 by 88 in.
Executed in 1961.
This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A08682.
Galerie Maeght, Paris
Private Collection, New York
G♏uy Ludmer Hotel Druot, Paris, 25 March 1984, lot 96
Private Collection, Brussels
Galería Theo, Madrid (acquired from the above circa 1984)
Private Collection, New York (🐓acquired from the above🎃 in 1986)
Q♉uintana Fine Art, New York (acquired from the above in 1989)
Weintraub Galleﷺry, New York (acquired from the above in 1989)
Acquired from the above in 19🥀98 by the present owner
Nicolas Guppy, “Chez Calder,” Observer Weekend Review, 8 July 1962, p. 23, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Denis Rene, Mouvement 2, December 1964 - February 1965, n.p., illustrated&ꦦnb🍷sp;
Madrid, Galería Theo, Doce Esculturas Calder / Miro Diez Pinturas, December 1985 - January 1986, no. 3, p. 10, illustrated in colour,♛ and pp. 12-13, illustrated in colour (installation view)
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