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Pre-bidding is now open for our September Fine Art, Design & Antiquities auction, featuring fine art, glass sculptures and vases, mid-century modern lamps, and more. Highlights include a pair of Samuel Henry Gordon Alken oil on canvas paintings, a Dale Chihuly "Persian Set" glass sculpture, and a Chinese carved hippo bone chess set, alongside paintings from Vasily Shulzhenko, John Alexander Noble, LeRoy Neiman, and more. Auction is September 30th at 1 PM CDT.
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Lot 364

After Alexander Calder "Fetes" Lithograph

Estimate: $100 - $200
Starting Bid
$25

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $5
$50 $10
$250 $25
$1,000 $50
$2,000 $100
$4,000 $250
$10,000 $500
$20,000 $1,000
$50,000 $2,500
$100,000 $5,000
$500,000 $10,000

Print is unsigned. 

In the style of Alexander Calder after his print "Fetes" 

 

Image: 23" x 31" 

Frame: 33 1/2" x 41 1/4" 

 

Condition: The image and frame is in good condition. 

 

Artist Bio: Alexander Calder (1898–1976) trained as a mechanical engineer before studying at the Art Students League, and a 1930 visit to Mondrian's studio in Paris turned him decisively toward abstraction; Duchamp coined the word mobile for his hanging kinetic sculptures in 1931 and Arp coined stabile the following year. He made lithographs prolifically from the late 1940s until his death, principally through Galerie Maeght and the Arte Adrien Maeght atelier in Paris, and the print imagery is his painted gouache vocabulary translated to stone — spirals, suns, stars, spheres and radiating lines in the primary-color palette he used throughout. The original "Fêtes" of 1971 is an unbound portfolio pairing a poem by Jacques Prévert with eight embossed etchings by Calder, published by Maeght Éditeur in an edition of 200. A print catalogued as after Calder is a later reproductive print made from that imagery rather than a sheet from the portfolio. 

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