Contemporary Art Online | New York
Contemporary Art Online | New York
Lot Closed
December 6, 06:08 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
DAVID SMITH
1906 - 1965
UNTITLED-NUDE
enamel on canvas
Canvas: 31¾ by 50⅝ in. (80.6 by 128.5 cm.)
Framed: 34½ by 52¼ in. (87.6 by 132.7 cm.)
Executed in 1964.
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in September 2000
“It was the soar of the human figure that held him, the uncompromising thrust it makes, the fight it carries on with the force of gravity... If this is geometry here, it is geometry that writhes and squirms.”
- Clement Greenberg, The Collected Essays and Criticism, vol. IV, Chicago 1993, pp. 227-98, as quoted in Alex Potts, “Personnages: Imperfect and Persistent”, David Smith: Personage, p. 7