Alexander Calder (1898-1976), Slender Legs

Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
Slender Legs
signed with the artist's monogram and dated ‘CA 59’ (on the largest element)
standing mobile—sheet metal, rod and paint
136 x 154 x 75 in. (345.4 x 391.1 x 190.5 cm.)
Executed in 1959.

Provenance
Private collection, Connecticut, 1962, acquired directly from the artist
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, circa 1978
Private collection, Japan
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
James Goodman Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1987

Pre-Lot Text
The Tuttleman Collection

Literature
Calder in Connecticut, exh. cat., Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, 2000, p. 131, fig. 151 (illustrated).
Calder in Brazil, exh. cat., Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paolo, 2006, pp. 200, 205 and 209 (artist's sketch illustrated and installation views illustrated).
Calder and Abstraction: from avant-garde to iconic, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013, p. 129, fig. 8 (illustrated).

Exhibited
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Alexander Calder: Escultura, Guache, September-October 1959, no. 4.