Alexander CALDER (1898-1976)

Silver Spiral Brooch, c. 1952

Unique silver brooch hand-hammered into a tight spiral and with a steel prong fastening.

Marks: Unsigned, but recorded in the Calder Foundation Archives under no. A22615

Dimensions: D. 6.0 cm

Provenance: Gift of the artist to Mrs MacDonald, whose daughter Joyce was one of Mary Calder's playmates in Roxbury, CT

Exhibited: Scultura Aurea. Gioielli d’Artista per un nuovo Rinascimento, Palazzo Ducale, Galleria Nazionale della Marche, Urbino, 30 May - 8 September 2019

Literature: Martine Newby Haspeslagh, Jewelry as Sculpture as Jewelry (Didier Ltd, London 2013), p. 18, no. 18; Idem, Jewelry by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors 250:1967-2017 (Didier Ltd, London 2017), pp. 36-7, no. 27; P. Stroppiana, Scultura Aurea. Gioielli d’Artista per un nuovo Rinascimento. Art Jewellery for a New Renaissance (Gli Ori 2019), p. 65