3D Printed Mobile 1 now available in 9 different colors
Our little 3D Printed Mobile 1 is now available in 9 different colors (yellow, green and orange are newly added). Today is the last day to order them if you’d like to receive them by Dec. 24th. $9 to $11 each depending on color:
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Calder at Art Basel Miami Beach – Mobiles Constitute a Trend
Today, December 4th 2014, at Art Basel Miami Beach, Leonardo DiCaprio also came to buy. As the dealer David Nahmad stood in front of an Alexander Calder mobile at Helly Nahmad Gallery, the heavily bearded actor approached him and asked, “I need your advice on a Picasso drawing,” and the two walked to a rival’s booth. The Calder mobile they stood in front of, pictured below, is Rouge Triomphant, ca. 1959–63, measuring 110 × 230 × 180 in / 279 x 584 x 457cm (“bigger than a taco truck” according to the Wall Street Journal), which sold for US$9.7m just two years ago at Christie’s and is now priced at US$35m. As of Friday, a collector has reportedly reserved it. [Update: the mobile was briefly listed again for sale on Artsy in December 2021]
Article “Upwardly Mobile” in The Art Newspaper: “Mobiles definitely constitute a trend at Art Basel Miami Beach, with organizers seeing an increase in the number of galleries installing hanging works … The number of mobiles is striking.”
Xin Li, deputy chairman of Christie’s Asia, with Rouge Triomphant at Art Basel Miami Beach, who was instrumental in selling Calder’s mobile Poisson volant (Flying Fish) (1957) for a record-breaking US$25m in May of this year (2014).
Also at Art Basel Miami Beach:
See Calder Foundation President Sandy Rower’s Top 5 Picks at Art Basel Miami Beach 2014
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Two Original Calder Mobiles Sold Tonight at Sotheby’s in Paris
Two original Alexander Calder mobiles, one hanging and one standing, sold tonight at Sotheby’s Art Contemporain in Paris:
Sans Titre (Untitled Hanging Mobile)
painted metal and wire
ca. 1947
86 x 71 cm / 34 x 28 in
Estimate: 1,000,000 – 1,500,000 USD
Sold for: 2,042,246 USD
Calder probably made this mobile in his Roxbury studio and gave it to a New York pediatrician as a thank you, after a somewhat comical request, to treat his mother in her old age.
Sans Titre (Untitled Standing Mobile)
sheet metal, brass wire and paint
ca. 1955
13 x 12 x 7.5 cm / 5 1/8 x 4 ¾ x 3 in
Estimate: 127,000 – 190,000 USD
Sold for: 260,753 USD
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Photos of a Large Custom Mobile for a Playroom
Photos of a large custom mobile I finished last week for a client’s children’s playroom (via Reddymade Design, NYC). It measures 6 ft / 1.8 m and is made with a hollow aluminum sphere (ball). The design is inspired by Alexander Calder‘s mobiles.
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Limited Edition of Plates with six iconic Calder Mobiles
French porcelain maker Bernardaud, in a collaboration with the Calder Foundation, has just launched a limited edition of 3000 sets of six porcelain dinner plates featuring mobiles by Alexander Calder for $550 per set. The plates feature six iconic mobiles created in the 1940s and 50s, such as 13 Spines, 1940, a noise-producing mobile with a cascade of projecting rods, and Painted Daisy in the Air, 1954, a masterpiece of spatial complexity.
The plates are currently available via the Whitney Shop. [Update: they’re sold out. Other Calder related items at the Whitney Shop]
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