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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Alexander Calder, Flying Dragon, 1975
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Alexander Calder, Flying Dragon, 1975
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    Alexander Calder

    Flying Dragon, 1975
    sheet metal, bolts and paint
    914.40 x 1706.80 x 655.30 cm.

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    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Roman Opalka, Infini Détail 1627999-1631391, 1965
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    • Flying Dragon
    There are two maquettes for Flying Dragon: an intermediate maquette (144x228x132 in.) currently in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a smaller version (exact dimensions unknown) in...
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    There are two maquettes for Flying Dragon: an intermediate maquette (144x228x132 in.) currently in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a smaller version (exact dimensions unknown) in a private collection.
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    Provenance

    Estate of the artist

    Perls Galleries, New York

    Mobil Oil Corporation, Fairfax, VA (acquired from the above, 1977)

    ExxonMobil Foundation, The Woodlands, TX

    Sotheby’s, Contemporary Art Evening Sale, 10 May 2006 (Lot 15)

    Private Collection (acquired from the above)

    Literature

    Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Calder's Universe , 1976, p. 327, illustrated in color
    Jean Lipman and Margaret Aspinwall, Alexander Calder and His Magical Mobiles, New York, 1981, p.69, illustrated in color
    Jacob Baal-Teshuva, Alexander Calder 1898-1976, Cologne, 2002, p.89, illustrated
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