Misappropriated Alexander Calder Sculpture sold over 75 times at public auction since 2004.
Misappropriated Alexander Calder Sculpture sold more than 75 times at public auction since 2004. Earlier this year, the Calder Foundation documented a series of pink and black Sculptures, Lithographs and Textiles, all of which violate the Artist’s Intellectual Property Rights and are often fradulently misattributed to Alexander Calder.
The small Counterfeit Sculpture you see above is often misattributed to Alexander Calder and has more aliases than Al Capone; the Sculpture has been documented with a number of Titles, including Celestial Elephant, Black Elephant Sun Moon Stars, Pink Elephant and L'Elephant Noir.
This small Counterfeit has sold for as much as $24,857 even though it was not conceived, designed, nor painted by Alexander Calder or authorized by The Estate of Alexander Calder.
Joseph K. Levene's insight:
One of the misappropriated works documented on the Calder Foundation website that got our attention is a small metal sculpture that has sold at public auction over 75 times since 2004, at auction houses including Wright, Phillips, Drouot, Bloomsbury, Galerie Fischer, Van Ham.
Since 2004, the Sculpture has been misattributed over 40 times as a sculpture by Alexander Calder and more than 35 times as a sculpture created After Alexander Calder at auction houes around the world and online. .
Google the Sculpure and you still see that this blatant forgerty is still being offered by Art Sellers on artnet, eBay and Amazon Art.
Everything about this Misattributed Sculpture allegedgly created in an edition of 999 is fiction, or to put it in Art terms, a blatant Counterfeit even though numerous galleries, brick and mortar auction houses and online auctions continue to sell it.
For more information, read: "Why Have Auction Houses Sold A Counterfeit Calder Sculpture Over 75 Times Since 2004?" by Joseph K. Levene on The Fine Art Blog
http://blog.thefineartblog.com/2013/05/why-have-auction-houses-sold_10.html#ixzz2hfIGAOub ;
