Property from a Prominent West Coast Collection
Tony Smith
Untitled (Atlanta)
Lot Closed
March 4, 04:33 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Prominent West Coast Collection
Tony Smith
1912 - 1980
Untitled (Atlanta)
incised with the artist's signature and number 2/6 (along the bottom edge)
patinated bronze
47 by 31 by 24 in.
119.4 by 78.7 by 61 cm.
Conceived in 1980 and executed in 1991, this work is number 2 from an edition of 6 plus 1 artist's proof.
Please note this work is being offered from an alternate location and is not onsite at Sotheby's New York. For inquires regarding collection or shipping, please contact Montserrat Palacios at Montserrat.Palacios@Sothebys.com
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1991 by the present owner
New York, Pace Gallery, Tony Smith: Paintings and Sculpture, September - October 1983, p. 31, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Tony Smith: Ten Elements, March 1991 (present example)
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Tony Smith: Architect, Painter, Sculptor, July - September 1998, p. 181, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Debbie Well, "Lack of sculpture is a monumental headache for library," Atlanta Constitution, 2 August 1981, no. 1, 12 (another example illustrated)
"Album: Tony Smith," arts Magazine, October 1983, p. 40 (another example illustrated)
John Russell, "Tony Smith," The New York Times, 7 October 1983, c. 29
Garth Henry Claassen, Tony Smith's Sculpture: Five Morphological Paradigms, Indiana University, 1991, no. 43-44, pp. 201, 247-250, 252 and 296 (another example illustrated)
Joseph Masheck, "Crystalline Form, Worringer, and the Minimalism of Tony Smith," Building-Art: Modern Architecture Under Cultural Construction, New York, 1993, no. 20, pp. 159-160 (another example illustrated)
Joan Pachner, “Tony Smith: Architect, Painter, Sculptor," The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1993, pl. 98 (another example illustrated)
Richard Kalina, "Building Form," Art in America, no. 3, March 1999, p. 79