obituary. major collector mfa ceramics from Cranbrook, dau. of Albert Kahn, architect, b. Detroit, lived in Manhattan.
dau. of Albert Kahn. Primarily relates to role as collectors, but she was a ceramist,Cranbrook grad, represented in DIA coll.
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new book on Calder jewelry: Calder Jewelry, by Mark Rosenthal (Contributor), Jane Adlin (Contributor), Alexander S. C. Rower (Editor), Maria Robledo (Photographer)
Go to site index, and check "jewelry." About 24 works are posted in color.
Go to Calder Foundatijon website, exhibitions, query "jewelry"
Three items in NGA collection: Brooch, 1945, 1996.120.4 "CV" Crown, 1945, 1996.120.13 Necklace, 1943, 1996.120.21
"The 1902 piece, an engagement gift to Baron Edouard de Rothschild, has a clock and a diamond-set cockerel that pops up every hour and flaps its wings."
"Alexander Ivanov, a businessman who helped found Russia's first private museum, bid in person at the tense Christie's auction in London on Wednesday for the egg, originally made for the Rothschild family."
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