Lot 324
  • 324

David Smith

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • David Smith
  • Women in War (Pace 23)
  • Signed in pencil David Smith lower right, numbered, dated and titled 2-12 1941 Women in War lower left, inscribed in pencil To C & J.F. lower center
    Edition 2 of 12
  • Etching
  • plate: 173 by 227 mm 6 3/4 by 8 7/8 in
  • sheet: 255 by 331 mm 10 by 13 in
Etching, 1941, signed in pencil, dedicated 'To C + J.F.', titled 'Women and War', dated, numbered 2/12, on Rives BFK paper, framed

Exhibited

Des Moines Art Center, Edmundson Art Foundation, Inc., Iowa Collects, May 4 - July 28, 1985

Condition

The print is in good condition, the full sheet. A window of pale light-stain and unobtrusive surface soiling in the margins. Adhesive stain with associated skinning and a related area of paper loss along the bottom sheet edge verso.
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