Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Contemporary Art Evening Auction
Property from the Collection of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson
Auction Closed
June 30, 01:51 AM GMT
Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
DAVID SMITH
1906 - 1965
DESERTED GARDEN LANDSCAPE
incised with the artist's signature and dated 1946 on a plaque affixed to the base
steel and bronze
10 ½ by 11 ½ by 4 ½ in. 26.7 by 29.2 by 11.4 cm.
Estate of the artist
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1969
Clement Greenberg, “Art,” Nation, April 1947, pp. 459-460
David Smith, “I Never Looked at a Landscape—Sculpture Is,” Possibilities I, Winter 1947-48, p. 24, illustrated
Exh. Cat, Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (and travelling), David Smith, 1906-1965: A Retrospective Exhibition, September 1966 - February 1967, p. 70, no. 150 (text)
Jerrold Lanes, “Small Sculptures by David Smith at the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery,” Burlington Magazine 110, July 1968, p. 423
Patricia Railing, “La sculpture américaine de 1940 à 1959," XXe siècle, June 1973, pp. 156-57, no. 40
Rosalind E. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York and London 1977, p. 39, no. 201 (text), and p. 148, fig. 201, illustrated
Ann Eden Gibson, Issues in Abstract Expressionism: The Artist Run Periodicals, New Haven 1990, no. 42, illustrated
Aurélie Barnier, "Une Revue de l'expressionisme abstrait américan: Possibilities (1947-1948)," Les Cahiers du Mnam, No. 71, Spring 2000, p. 112, illustrated
Adelheid M. Gealt, Masterworks from the Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington 2007, p. 38, illustrated