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Auction Closed

December 9, 12:09 AM GMT

Estimate

6,000,000 - 8,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Neiman Marcus Collection

Alexander Calder

1898 - 1976

Mariposa 


sheet metal, rod and paint 

125 by 122 in. 317.5 by 309.9 cm,

Executed in 1951, this work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A17840.

Please note this lot is subject to a guarantee and irrevocable bid.

Acquired by the presen🀅t owner from the arti🧜st in 1951

Frank X. Tolbert, Neiman-Marcus, Texas: The Story of the Proud Dallas Store, New York 1953, n.p., illustrated (with the artist, as installed in Neiman Marcus at Preston Center, Dallas), n.p., illustrated (installed in Neiman ꦆMarcus at Preston Center, Dallas), and𓄧 n.p. (text)

Alex J. Taylor, "The Calder Problem: Mobiles, Modern Taste, and Mass Culture," Oxford Art Journal, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2014, p. 37 (text)

Steffen Heemann, ed., Global Corporate Collections, Cologne 2015, p. 346, illustrated in color