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Alexander Calder
1898-1976 · Kinetic art, Abstraction
The club deal
- Status
- Fundraising open
- Minimum per member
- USD 100,000 (US residents: USD 200,000 individuals, USD 1,000,000 entities)
- Fundraising target
- 5,000,000 USD
- Selection window
- 12 months, with return of the capital if no suitable work is found
- Vehicle
- a dedicated SPV for this artist
- Expected exit
- between 3 and 7 years, through auction or private sale
How the club deal for each artist works · Costs
If no suitable work is found within 12 months, the capital paid in is returned.
Price range of the works the club looks for
from 1,000,000 to 26,000,000 USD (1-26 million for major mobiles and stabiles; gouaches and small works from tens to hundreds of thousands)
Market liquidity: high
Biography
Alexander Calder was an American sculptor who invented the mobile, a suspended abstract sculpture set in motion by air, and the stabile, its static counterpart. Trained as an engineer, he moved in Paris avant-garde circles around 1930, where a visit to Mondrian's studio pushed him toward abstraction. His wire figures, Cirque Calder, gouaches, jewellery and monumental public works make his output very large and varied. The market is deep and international, with mobiles from the 1940s and 1950s at the top. His record, Poisson volant (1957), sold for 25.9 million dollars at Christie's New York in 2014, and in November 2025 the wooden mobile Painted Wood (1943) reached 20.4 million dollars, his second highest auction price.
Auction record
25,925,000 USD: Poisson volant (Flying Fish), 1957, Christie's, New York, 2014-05-13 (source)
Recent auction results
- 825,500 USD: Lion Marin Noir, Christie's, New York, 2025-11-20 (source)
- 20,400,000 USD: Painted Wood, Christie's, New York (source)
Market data: public auction results with date, auction house and source, the same data as Unicorn Art Watch.
Museums
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- National Gallery of Art, Washington
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Centre Pompidou, Parigi
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
Sources
- HENI News, Poisson volant record
- Artnet News, Calder Painted Wood mobile at Christie's
- The Art Newspaper, Wooden Calder mobile to auction
- HENI News, Lion Marin Noir November 2025
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