{"id":19743,"date":"2025-09-16T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/19743\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:14:09","slug":"gladstone-gallerys-art-basel-paris-booth-5-5-m-calder-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/19743\/","title":{"rendered":"Gladstone Gallery\u2019s Art Basel Paris Booth $5.5 M. Calder Mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAlexander Calder<\/a>, famous for his mobiles and stabiles, is having a moment. Next week, the long-awaited Calder Gardens will open in Philadelphia<\/a>, and next month, the Whitney Museum in New York will open an exhibition celebrating the centennial of Calder\u2019s Circus (1926\u201331).<\/p>\n

\n\tThis institutional moment lands alongside the artist\u2019s market, which has been notably resistant to the current downturn, and sets the stage for the reappearance of an important Calder in Paris next month.<\/p>\n

\n\tAll 13 Calders that have sold for over $1 million at auction this year have achieved prices within their pre-sale estimates, or above. The most expensive of these was Gypsophila (1949), which Christie\u2019s New York sold for $8.5 million from the collection of Anne and Sid Bass; that work came to the house\u2019s 20th-century evening sale in May with an estimate of $6 million to $8 million.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn 2024, all but 1 the 12 lots that sold for over $1 million met or exceeded their pre-sale estimates, with the priciest of these being Blue Moon (1962), which sold for $14.4 million at Sotheby\u2019s New York against a $10 million high estimate. That figure is just over half of Calder\u2019s auction record, set in 2014 when Christie\u2019s sold the 1957 sculpture Poisson volant (Flying Fish) for $25.9 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tVeteran art adviser Todd Levin described Calder\u2019s market as having \u201cone of the highest sell-through rates of any artist,\u201d which, he said, is exceptionally notable given how often works by Calder come to auction and how prolific an artist Calder was. (When Calders do fail to sell at auction, Levin said, it\u2019s often down to serious condition issues or concerns about their authenticity.)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCalder\u2019s market is one of the most bullet-proof and recession-proof markets, on a case-by-case basis, out of any artist that exists,\u201d Levin said in a phone interview. \u201cAnd that market has proved itself over many, many decades. The fact that the supply is as large as it is, the quality of the work is so high, and the demand for the work is so high, the sell-through rate continues to be truly exceptional.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of the next big Calders to come to market has been there recently. Next month, Gladstone Gallery<\/a> will bring to Art Basel Paris the standing mobile Caged Stone on Yellow Stalk (ca. 1955), which last sold at Christie\u2019s sale of the Gerald Fineberg<\/a> collection in May 2023.<\/p>\n

\n\tMany market observers date the beginning of the market downturn to the Fineberg sale; Caged Stone, estimated at $4 million to $6 million, went for $3.2 million. (Another Calder in the Fineberg sale went for $2.6 million, against a $2.5 million low estimate.) \u201cThe market had already jumped the shark at that point, in terms of its current behavior,\u201d Levin said of the timing of the Fineberg sale.<\/p>\n

\n\tGladstone is betting that the market value of the piece, which Calder made during a productive period<\/a> after he moved to a new studio in Sach\u00e9, France, remains squarely within Christie\u2019s estimate: the gallery has priced it at $5.5 million.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Calder will be a wonderful addition to our presentation at Art Basel Paris, and its inclusion reflects the kind of curatorial rigor that has always been central to\u00a0Gladstone\u2019s philosophy,\u201d Max Falkenstein, senior partner at Gladstone, told ARTnews in an email. \u201cWe are proud to present this work as a testament to the enduring significance of Calder\u2019s legacy and his continued influence on contemporary artists. This presentation reaffirms the gallery\u2019s commitment to bringing historically significant and impactful works to a global stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCaged Stone on Yellow Stalk is similar to a work Calder made two years prior, Yellow Stalk with Stone (1953)<\/a>, which is a promised gift to the Seattle Art Museum, from major Calder collectors Jon Shirley and his late wife Mary Shirley. (Jon Shirley and his second wife Kim Shirley recently gave<\/a> an additional 48 Calders to SAM.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Calder, famous for his mobiles and stabiles, is having a moment. Next week, the long-awaited Calder Gardens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[17563,18891,437,434,435,436,438,146,18892,18893,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-19743","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-basel-paris-2025","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-arts-and-design","12":"tag-artsanddesign","13":"tag-artsdesign","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-gerald-fineberg","17":"tag-gladstone-gallery","18":"tag-il","19":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}