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David Smith

Europa

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October 21, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

David Smith

Decatur 1906 - 1965 Albany


Europa

signed, titled and dated 1953 (on the underside of the base)

steel, bronze and cast iron

height 20 in.; width 25 ½ in.; depth 7 ½ in.

50.8 cm; 64.8 cm; 19.1 cm

Executed in 1953.

Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist in 1956);

Acquired from the above in 2003 by the present collector

New York, Willard Gallery, David Smith, 5 January - 30 January 1954, no. 11;

Cincinnati Modern Art Society; Madison, Memorial Union Galleries, University of Wisconsin; South Bend Art Association; Bloomington, Indiana University; Louisville, Midwestern College Art Conference, David Smith: Sculpture, Drawings, Graphics, 19 May - 15 November 1954, no. 12;

Detroit Institute of Arts, Paintings by Kurt Seligmann, Metal Sculpture by David Smith, 15 February - 13 March 1955, no. 4;

San Francisco Museum of Art; Richmond Art Center; Long Beach, Municipal Arts Center; Seattle, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Three Contemporary Sculptors: Reg Butler, Berto Landera and David Smith, 19 May - circa December 1955;

Mountainville, Storm King Art Center, David Smith Exhibition, 12 May - 31 October 1976, p. 5;

New York, Zabriskie Gallery, Eight New York School Sculptors, 1940-1955, New York, 26 April - 27 May 1983, no. 34;

New York, Craig F. Starr Gallery, Helen Frankenthaler & David Smith, 6 June - 8 August 2014, pl. 5, reproduced n.p.

S. Preston, “Diverse Moderns: In Nonobjective Veins – A Memorial – Baizerman," in New York Times (10 January 1954), p. X10;

M.L. Alexander, “Geometric Qualities Are Shown in Some of Watercolor Series by Mrs. Grace Carlsrue Mack," in Cincinnati Enquirer (30 May 1954), p.6; 

J. Hakanson, “Seligmann, Smith at Museum; Gropper Solo Opens Monday," in Detroit Free Press (20 February 1955), n.p.; 

J.H. Cone and M. Paul, in David Smith 1906-1965: A Retrospective Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge 1966, no. 234, p.73;  

R.E. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York and London 1977, no. 326, reproduced p. 409;

A. Lerner, in David Smith: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, exhibition catalogue, M. McClintic, Washington D.C., 1979, p. 18;

K. Wilkin, David Smith, New York 1984, reproduced p.121;

P. Halasz, “A Major Wave, Back When...," in (An Appropriate Distance) from the Mayor’s Doorstep Blog (12 August 2014), n.p.;  

C. Lyon, ed., David Smith Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932-1965, Volume Two: 1932 - 1953, New Haven 2021, no. 326, reproduced p. 409