Christie\u2019s has secured the consignment of a mobile by Alexander Calder made of wood from early in the artist\u2019s career. Specialists expect the work, the leading lot of the Christie\u2019s 20th Century Evening Sale next month, to sell for between $15m and $20m\u2014Calder\u2019s highest-ever auction estimate.<\/p>\n
Painted Wood (1943) is the largest and most significant of Calder\u2019s wooden Constellation mobiles ever to appear at auction, according to Christie\u2019s. The work is being offered from the collection of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, a prominent collector of predominantly Latin American art. Its provenance is notable: the mobile was featured in Calder\u2019s landmark 1943 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which made him\u2014at age 45\u2014the youngest artist to receive a solo exhibition at the museum. (Frank Stella broke that record in 1970 and still holds the title today.)<\/p>\n
The record for Calder\u2019s work at auction was set in 2014, when a later mobile sold at Christie’s New York for $25.93m (with fees) against a $9m to $12m estimate. <\/p>\n
Calder, who died in 1976 aged 78, is currently the subject of multiple high-profile institutional presentations, including at the newly opened Calder Gardens<\/a> in Philadelphia. This weekend, the Whitney Museum of American Art opens a show<\/a> celebrating the centennial of Calder\u2019s Circus (1926\u201331), the artist\u2019s miniature wire model of a circus.<\/p>\n Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified Calder’s current auction record. The article has been revised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christie\u2019s has secured the consignment of a mobile by Alexander Calder made of wood from early in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[19986,12581,307,304,305,306,26364,11117,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-89546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-alexander-calder","9":"tag-art-market","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-arts-and-design","12":"tag-artsanddesign","13":"tag-artsdesign","14":"tag-auctions","15":"tag-christies","16":"tag-design","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}