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Lot Description

Alexander Calder

(American, 1898-1976)

Pyramidal Shapes

, 1956

oil on canvas

signed Calder and dated (lower right)

30 x 26 inches.

Property from the Estate of Lynne Meyers Gordon, Cincinnati, Ohio

Provenance:
Artist's Studio
Charles Burdick, Woodbury, Connecticut, 1957
Sold: Sotheby's New York, October 18, 1984, lot 194
Private Collection, 1984
Sold: Sotheby's New York, October 1, 1985, lot 76
Private Collection, New York, 1985
O'Hara Gallery, New York, 1987
Irving Galleries, Palm Beach, 1999
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2001

Exhibited:
New York, Perls Galleries, Calder, February 6 - March 10, 1956
New York, O'Hara Gallery, Motion - Emotion: The Art of Alexander Calder, October 21 - December 4, 1999

Literature:
O'Hara Gallery, Alexander Calder: Sculpture, Paintings, Works on Paper, New York, 1993, no. 7

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A05452

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