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ALEXANDER CALDER Male and Female Nudes.
Pen and black ink on thin cream wove paper, 1945. 180x260 mm; 7 1/8x10 1/4 inches. Signed "Sandy" dated "May 7/45" and dedicated "to Vivacious Elizabeth" in ink, lower margin. Ex-collection Elizabeth Nelson, thence by descent to the current owner.
With--A group of letters and telegrams from Curt Valentin to Elizabeth Nelson, the dedicatee of the drawing.
Curt Valentin was Calder's art dealer in New York from late 1943 to 1954. Elizabeth Nelson was Valentin's assistant during the mid-1940s.
