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Alexander Calder
(American, 1898-1976)
\"A famous old lady had three sticks...\", 1944
Estimate: $4,000-$6,000
Sold
$7,000
Live Auction
Art + Design
Size
11 1/4 x 10 ½ in. (28.6 x 26.7cm)
Description
Alexander Calder
(American, 1898-1976)
"A famous old lady had three sticks...", 1944
ink on paper
signed A. Calder bottom right
11 1/4 x 10 ½ in. (28.6 x 26.7cm)
Signature
signed A. Calder bottom right
Provenance
Provenance:Perls Gallery, New York.Acquired directly from the above in 1973.Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Acquired directly from the above in 1985.Estate of Ana D. Thompson, Berwyn, Pennsylvania.Note: This work has been registered in the Archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A05129.This drawing is an unused study for the 1944 publication, Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes, which included eighty-five drawings by Calder and was edited by James Johnson Sweeney.