Nov 12, 2015 - Sale 2398

Sale 2398 - Lot 136

Price Realized: $ 3,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
ALEXANDER CALDER
The Circus.

Color lithograph, 1975. 665x949 mm; 26x38 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 35/125 in pencil, lower margin. A good impression.

During the spring of 1965, Calder spent two weeks in New York illustrating the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and during the winter of 1925 sketched the Sarasota, Florida, training camp of the Ringling circus. Subsequently, in Paris in 1936 he deveolped the Cirque Calder. His career-long interest in the circus continued to the later graphic works.