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Property from a New York Private Collection

David Smith

Untitled

Auction Closed

November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 850,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a New York Private Collection

David Smith

1906 - 1965


Untitled

incised with the artist's signature twice and date 1938 (on the base)

painted steel

39 ⅞ by 42 ⅛ by 10 in.

101.3 by 107 by 25.4 cm.

Executed in 1938.

Estate of the artist
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Noel and Richard Frackman, Scarsdale (acquired from the above in August 1972)
Thence by descent from the above in March 2008 to the present owner
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Dallas Museum of Art and Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, David Smith, 1969, no. 19, pp. 11, 13 and p. 38, illustrated
Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Contemporary Sculpture, 1972, no. 8, n.p., illustrated
South Hadley, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Collective Pursuits: Mount Holyoke Investigates Modernism, 1993, p. 54, illustrated in color and pp. 132-33
Smith 1968a Cleve Gray, ed., David Smith by David Smith, New York, 1968, p. 140, illustrated
Rosalind E. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York and London 1977, no. 130, p. 23 and p. 219, illustrated
Christopher Lyon, ed., David Smith Sculpture A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932-1965, Volume Two 1932-1953, New Haven and London, 2021, no. 105, p. 106, illustrated in color