Alexander Calder
Untitled


1933
colored ink and graphite on paper
23 h × 30.5 w in (58 × 77 cm)

Signed and dated to verso 'Calder 1933'. This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application no. A00778.

Provenance: Collection of Tristan Tzara, Paris (likely acquired directly from the artist in 1933) | Private Collection | Dain Gallery, New York | Private Collection, New York | Christie's, New York, Contemporary Art, 22 February 1996, Lot 1 | Private Collection, New York | Pace Gallery, New York | Private Collection

Exhibited: Calder, 2 April - 31 May 1969, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France | The Surrealists, 11 November - 21 December 1969, Byron Gallery, New York | Alexander Calder: Early Works, c. 1927–1944, 12 December 1971 - 31 January 1972, Taft Museum, Cincinnati | Tel est Calder, 8 February - 16 March, 1997, Galereie du Golf-Hotel Les Hauts de Gstaad-Saanenmoser, Gstaad, Switzerland | Motion, Emotion: The Art of Alexander Calder, 21 October - 4 December 1999, O'Hara Gallery, New York | The Surreal Calder, 30 September 2005 - 8 January 2006, The Menil Collection, Houston (traveling exhibition) | Calder: Space in Play, 22 October - 19 December 2014, James Goodman Gallery, New York

Literature: Calder, L'Artists et L'Oeuvre, Calder, Sweeney and Lelong, pg. 49 Alexander Calder, 1898–1976, Baal-Teschuva, pg. 26 Calder, Fondation Maeght exhibition catalog, pg. 129, no. 39 The Surrealists, Byron Gallery exhibition catalog, pg. 25, no. 8 Alexander Calder: Early Works, c. 1927–1944, Taft Museum exhibition catalog, pg. 6 Motion, Emotion: The Art of Alexander Calder, O'Hara Gallery exhibition catalog, pg. 15 The Surreal Calder, The Menil Collection exhibition catalog, pg. 47

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