Le Crane dans le Nid (The Crane in the Nest)
Alexander Calder, American, 1898 - 1976
1961
Color etching on wove paper
8/90
Impression: 10 3/4 × 14 3/4 in. (27.3 × 37.5 cm)
Sheet: 19 3/4 × 26 in. (50.2 × 66 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Phyllis and Bertram Geller 1937 Memorial Fund
© Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
PR.963.145
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right margin: Calder; inscribed, in graphite, lower left margin: 8/90; lower left edge (in another hand): Le Crane Dans le Nid
Exhibition History
Gifts of the Class of 1937, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 10-November 11, 1973.
Provenance
Ferdinand Roten Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland; sold to present collection, 1963.
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