Caracas

Purchased by a private collector, Caracas, Venezuela, 1955 [1]. Dayton’s Department Store, Gallery 12, Minneapolis, after 1963 [2]. James Goodman Gallery, New York [3]. Brook Street Gallery, London [4]. Private collection, London [5]. James Goodman Gallery, New York City [6]; purchased by Oklahoma Art Center, April 18, 1979; transferred to Oklahoma City Art Museum, 1989; transferred to Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2002.

[1] Correspondence from James Neil Goodman of James Goodman Gallery, New York City, June 21, 1979; purchased from the Calder exhibition at the Museo de Bellas Artes, September 11-25, 1955, Caracas
[2] Correspondence from James Neil Goodman of James Goodman Gallery, New York City, June 21, 1979; Gallery 12 was founded in 1964 (there was an exhibition on Calder at the gallery in 1968, but Caracas was seemingly not included)
[3] Correspondence from James Neil Goodman of James Goodman Gallery, New York City, June 21, 1979; the original premises of the gallery were in Buffalo, New York, where a Calder exhibition was mounted in 1966 (that may or may not have included Caracas), the gallery then moved to New York City in 1967
[4] Correspondence from James Neil Goodman of James Goodman Gallery, New York City, June 21, 1979 (the gallery had an exhibition on Calder in 1965, but Caracas was seemingly not included)
[5] Correspondence from James Neil Goodman of James Goodman Gallery, New York City, June 21, 1979
[6] Correspondence from James Neil Goodman of James Goodman Gallery, New York City, June 21, 1979; the provenance provided by Goodman suggests an unbroken history starting with the private collection in Caracas, but this has not been verified