A prominent New York art gallerist is battling with a famed art detective and the granddaughter of a Swiss architect over who is the true owner of a $8.7 million Alexander Calder sculpture—a dispute ...
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A 1959 mobile by American sculptor Alexander Calder will be offered as a highlight of Phillips 20th-century and contemporary art sale in New York in May, with a presale estimate between US$10.5 ...
Received several commissions for large-scale public sculpture, including a mobile for JFK Airport commissioned by Port Authority of New York and a stabile for UNESCO Paris headquarters Alexander ...
“Why must art be static?” Alexander Calder once asked, with a tinge of defiance. “The next step in sculpture is motion.” This question, or near challenge, impelled the artist to investigate mass and ...
Alexander Calder, the Pennsylvania-born sculptor who died in 1976, is, it’s safe to say, one of New York’s, and the Alexander Calder standing outside his home next to several of his stabile structures ...
The Pennsylvania-born artist originally gifted Painted Wood to Brazilian modernist architect Henrique Mindlin. The work later sold to philanthropist and collector Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, who has ...
Alexander Calder’s grandson allegedly torpedoed the $8 million sale of one of the famed sculptor’s pieces in order to “control and manipulate” the lucrative market for his grandpa’s art, a collector ...