Rare wooden Alexander Calder mobile heads to Christie’s

Christie’s has secured the consignment of a rare wooden mobile by Alexander Calder, titled *Painted Wood* (1943), which will lead its 20th Century Evening Sale next month. The work, offered from the collection of prominent Latin American art collector Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, carries an estimate of $15–20 million—the highest ever for a Calder at auction. It is the largest and most significant of Calder’s wooden Constellation mobiles to appear at auction and was featured in his landmark 1943 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where he became the youngest artist to receive a solo show at that institution.