Lot 119
  • 119

David Smith

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • David Smith
  • Untitled
  • incised with the artist's name, date '61 and at Bolton 1961, dedication For Ken Noland and inscription You Me Uccello on the base
  • steel
  • 7 by 4 by 1 1/8 in. 17.8 by 10.2 by 2.9 cm.

Provenance

Gift of the artist

Exhibited

Mountainville, New York, Storm King Art Center, David Smith Exhibition, May - October 1976, checklist, p. 8

Literature

Rosalind E. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1977, cat. no. 543, p. 98

Condition

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. There is evidence of scattered oxidation to the surface. Otherwise, there are no apparent condition problems with this work.
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