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“IWROTETO PEGGY GUGGENHEIMTODAY”
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CALDER, ALEXANDER. Archive containing two Autograph Letters Signed and
three Autograph Postcards Signed, to collector Harry Francis Burke, concerning the pro-
duction of, and payment for, commissioned artworks. Each signed “Sandy,” or “Sandy
Calder,” with one signed in full. With an autograph letter fragment, unsigned, showing a
portion of a holograph sketch for a mobile. Format and condition vary. Each with the
original envelope.
Vp, 1945-47
[6,000/9,000]
[1 August 1944?], fragment: “. . . I wrote to Peggy Guggenheim today to see if I could get a
photo of the ‘bed head’. . . .
“
Could you send me the
inside diameter
of the
eye opening in the yellow frame?
“
Personally I prefer the primary colors. . . .”
6 October 1944: “. . . I will be [in NY] Oct. 9 & 10 . . . .TheWillard Gallery. . . has some
jewelry of mine! But I have some more in apt.”
13 March 1945:“Thanks for the [$]250 . . . .
“
I sent the plaster over to the foundry about a week after I saw you in N.Y.” Postscript: “I
may be in Chi. very soon for to do a ballet at the University with [Remi] Gassman.”
18 April 1945: “. . . I am going to N.Y. next week and will see what the foundry has done.
“
Louisa thinks she would like to keep the ‘Brass Family.’ I might make you something of a
similar nature, if you insisted.”
9 April 1946: “You’re quite wrong about my having had ‘dire’ thoughts about you. On the
contrary, when I heard you had gotten into trouble, I felt very sorry about it. My information
being a bit vague, and very belated, I decided to just wait till I heard from you. . . .
“
[A]s I have to pay for the bronze casting out of the [$]1100, I really need it to make things
come out even. . . .”
WITH
-
Letters from the John and Mable Ringling Museum and Alan Frumkin Gallery con-
cerning Burke’s purchase or borrowing of Calder works, with related receipts and insurance
document. 1944-66.
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BERRYMAN, CLIFFORD K. Two ink drawings, each Signed “Berryman” at
lower right, political cartoons. The first, showing President Herbert Hoover lifting a stone
out of a river surrounded by others struggling to do the same: “Even at play I’m just crazy
to accomplish something.” The second, showing a VA Republican elephant about to dive
into a “Coalition Pool” where an independent VA Democratic donkey says, “Water’s just
fine!” Each 13
1
/
2
x14 inches; evenly toned, faint scattered soiling, minor loss at few corners.
(MRS)
Np, circa 1933
[200/300]
Clifford K. Berryman (1869-1949) won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartoon in 1944.