$7,500
Estimate: $6,000 - $10,000
Modern & Contemporary Works of Art
Auction: November 2, 2014 2:00:00 PM EDT
Ca. 1970, numbered 3/6 on woven label affixed verso, with the Art Vivant and Tapisserie d'Aubusson Penton fabric labels affixed verso, Art Vivant, Inc., New Rochelle, publisher. Woven wool Aubusson tapestry.
77 1/2 x 53 1/2 in. (196.9 x 135.8cm)
Provenance: Art Vivant Inc., New Rochelle, New York.
Christie's East, New York, "Modern & Contemporary Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings & Sculpture," February 27, 1992, lot 165.
Private Collection, New York.
Exhibited:
"Alexander Calder Tapestries," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Oct.-Nov. 1971, exhibition catalogue no. 18 (another example).
"Aubusson Tapestries by Calder," Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York, April-May 1972, exhibition catalogue no. 16 (another example).