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$1.4-Million Calder Mobile Stolen: An Alexander Calder mobile with a $1.4-million price tag has been stolen from a New York gallery, authorities said Tuesday. The 30-pound mobile, “White Flag,” was stolen at 6 p.m. Sunday from Perls Galleries on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, said police Lt. Joseph Pollini. The gallery owner, Klaus Perls, discovered the burglary Monday morning. Perls, 78, was Calder’s exclusive agent for 22 years, until the artist died in 1976. Pollini said the burglars entered the six-story building through a skylight. The four-foot high “White Flag,” an aluminum mobile created in 1962, was hanging by a cable just beneath the skylight. Pollini said there are 40 to 50 gallery burglaries a year in the city, averaging $500,000 to $1.5 million per theft.