Henry Was a Worthy King, Mary Was His Queen, ca. 1944

  • Alexander Calder, American, 1898-1976

Pen and black ink on off-white wove paper

  • Sheet: 11 1/4 × 10 1/4 inches (28.6 × 26 cm)

Bequest of Jerome I. Smith

F81.231

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed, in pen and brown ink, lower left: A. Calder

Inscribed, in pencil, along left edge, center, verso: [illegible] || 15 x 15 - 3 - 27 [illegible] [all partially erased]

1981-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Alexander Calder, Mobiles, Stabiles, Gouaches, Drawings from Michigan Collections. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, 1983, no. 88.

Alexander Calder, Henry Was a Worthy King, Mary Was His Queen, ca. 1944, pen and black ink on off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Jerome I. Smith, F81.231.