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Description: wood, steel and string standing mobile

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Dimensions: 54 1/2 x 44 x 27 in. 138.4 x 111.8 x 68.6 cm.

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Provenance: Katherine Dudley, Chicago (acquired directly from the artist)
Perls Galleries, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above circa 1960

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Exhibited:

Chicago, The Renaissance Society, Mobiles by Alexander Calder, January 1935
Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, Mobiles by Alexander Calder, February 1935
Paris, Galerie de Cahiers, U.S. Centre Culturel Americain, Les Années Vingt: Les Écrivains Américains a Paris et Leur Amis 1920-1930, March – April 1959, cat. no. 543
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Alexander Calder: a Retrospective Exhibition, Work from 1925 to 1974, October – December 1974 (titled Mobile)

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Notes: Executed in 1934, this work is registered in the archives of the Calder Foundation, New York, under application number A14586.
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION