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Alexander Calder — Untitled (Ducks)
Alexander Calder

Untitled (Ducks)

1925

Alexander Calder's 'Untitled (Ducks)' is a 1925 watercolor and ink work on paper that likely depicts waterfowl with Calder's characteristic playful and flowing line work. The piece demonstrates the artist's early interest in capturing movement and animal subjects before his development of mobile sculpture.

Medium
watercolor and ink on paper

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Contemporary Art

March 5, 2021

Estimate: $8,000$12,000

Lot 587

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Alexander Calder, Untitled (Ducks), 1925

Alexander Calder's 'Untitled (Ducks)' is a 1925 watercolor and ink work on paper that likely depicts waterfowl with Calder's characteristic playful and flowing line work. The piece demonstrates the artist's early interest in capturing movement and animal subjects before his development of mobile sculpture.

Medium
watercolor and ink on paper
Year
1925
Seen at
Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Animal, Minimal, American, Sketch, Early 20th Century, Modernism, Whimsical, Watercolor and Ink, Ducks, Playful

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Collected by

Alex Capecelatro, Sebastián In Situ, Jonathan Murray, Hamilton Selway Gallery