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THE ARTHUR AND ANITA KAHN COLLECTION: A NEW YORK STORY
ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
Ninety Degrees in View
signed and dated ‘Calder 1931’ (lower right)
ink on paper
22 ½ x 30 ½ in. (57.2 x 77.5 cm.)
Drawn in 1931.

PROVENANCE
Perls Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1968

LITERATURE
A. Pierre, Calder: Mouvement et Réalité., Éditions Hazan, Paris, 2009, p. 136.
Alexander Calder: les années parisiennes 1926-1933, exh. cat., Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, p. 113 (illustrated).

EXHIBITED
New York, Perls Galleries, Calder / Space: Drawings 1930-1932; Gouaches 1967-1968, October-November 1968, p. 4, no. 7 (illustrated).
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Élan vital oder Das Auge Der Eros: Kandinsky, Klee, Arp, Miró, Calder, May-August 1994, pl. 178 (illustrated).
Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Alexander Calder: Retrospective, October 1995-January 1996, p. 16, no. 132 (illustrated in color).
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Alexander Calder (1898-1976), March-May 1996, pp. 40-41 (illustrated).
Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Alexander Calder: 1898-1976, July-October 1996, p. 60 (illustrated).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Alexander Calder: 1898-1976, March-December 1998, p. 94 (illustrated in color).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933, October 2008-February 2009, p. 112 (illustrated).
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