Triangles

Details

ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Triangles
standing mobile—sheet metal and paint
21 1/4 x 21 x 14 in. (53.8 x 53.3 x 35.5 cm.)
Executed in 1957.

Provenance

Robert and Elodie Osborn, Salisbury, Connecticut, gift of the artist
By descent from the above to the present owner, 1995

Exhibited

Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Calder in Connecticut, April-August 2000, p. 167, no. 106.

Further details

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A15236.

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Descriptif du lot

"The sense of 'potential energy,' of energy barely contained, endows them [Calder’s stabiles] with a powerful presence." (M. Glimcher, “Alexander Calder: Toward Monumentalism,” Alexander Calder: The 50s, New York, 1995, pp. 16-17).

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