After an eight-year dispute the Court of Appeals in Paris has ordered the estate of Aimé Maeght, the Paris dealer who represented the sculptor Alexander Calder during his lifetime, to return seven sculptures to the artist’s estate.
The works, which include a variety of mobiles and stabiles made between 1941 and 1970, are worth about $6.25 million, according to Alexander S. C. Rower, a grandson of the artist and president of the Calder Foundation. Prized among the group is a rare 1941 glass mobile.
“In 2007 the Paris court ordered the gallery to return three other works that were in dispute,’’ Mr. Rower said. He added that there are still three sculptures that the Maeght Gallery sold after Calder’s death in 1976 but never paid the estate for. The court still has to determine whether the gallery will reimburse the estate for these works as well.
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