Mark Borghi

Alexander Calder

Ashtray

Ashtray

c.1955 (SOLD)

 

Tin can, sheet metal, steel and brass wire
3 7/8 x 4 1/8 x 4 1/8in. (9.8 x 10.5 x 10.5cm)

 

Ex-collection:
The Artist
Mathias Goeritz, Mexico.
A gift from the above to the present owner in 1985 until 2014

 

Exhibition:
New York, Jonathan O’Hara Gallery, Simplicity of Means: Calder and the Devised Object, 2007 (illustrated, p. 19)

 

Literature:
A. Rower, J. Perl and J. Hill, Calder by Matter, 2013 (illustrated, p. 269)

 

This work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application no. A02037.