Lot 84
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
LES RONDES
Auction: 9 December 2004 at 11:00 GMT
£18,800
Description
Signed and dated '75, gouache
Dimensions
72.5cm x 107cm (28.5in x 42in)
Footnote
Note:Calder's Universe, Jean Lipman, 1976. 'Calder began painting in gouache in the thirties but it was not until the mid forties that he achieved a bold breakthrough in the medium.......Calder's gouaches, seemingly simple are infinitely inventive works that only a masterly painter could produce. Some are based on natural forms, some are abstract. The best ones, joyeously conceived, firmly structured, brilliantly coloured, add up to one of the most remarkable bodies of work of our time.'