David Smith

Estate of the artist

Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Brant (acquired from the above in January 1969)

Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 18 November 1970, lot 5 (consigned by the above)

Irwin and Bethea Green, Detroit (acquired from above)

Christie’s, New York, 18 November 1997, lot 106 (consigned by the above)

Lucy Mitchell-Innes Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 2005 by the present owner

David Smith, Art News, vol. 46, April 1947, p. 46

William R. Valentiner, "Special Feature: Sculpture by David Smith," Arts & Architecture, vol. 65, August 1948, p. 22, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, David Smith 1906-1965: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1966, no. 155

John Ashbery, "Reviews and Previews," Art News, vol. 67, Summer 1968, p. 18

Rosalind Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1977, no. 208, illustrated

Alain Kirili, "Statuary versus Idol," Artforum, vol. 21, February 1983, p. 59

Alain Kirili, "David Smith: The Cult of the Solar Nude," Sculpture, vol. 13, May - June 1994, p. 35

Exh. Cat., Paris, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Dessins de David Smith: un choix d'Alain Kirili, 2003, p. 28

Exh. Cat., Valencia, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, David Smith: Draftsman. Between Eros and Thanatos, 2004, pp. 23 and 35, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Paris, Centre Pompidou and London, Tate Modern, David Smith: A Centennial, February 2006 - January 2007, p. 43

David Smith, David Smith: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Interviews, Oakland, 2018, p. 6 

Christopher Lyon, ed., David Smith Sculpture A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932-1965, vol. II, New Haven and London, 2021, no. 239, p. 282, illustrated in color

New York, Willard Gallery, David Smith: Sculpture, 1946-1947, April 1947, no. 1

Art Association of Newport, 36th American Annual, July 1947

Washington, D. C., Catholic University of America, Drawings, Paintings, Sculptures by David Smith, October - November 1952

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Sculpture and Drawings: David Smith, April - May 1952

New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, David Smith: Small Sculptures of the Mid-Forties, May - June 1968, no. 9, illustrated

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Painting and Sculpture, 1940 - 1970, October 1969 - February 1970, no. 358, p. 304, illustrated

Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Museum of Art, Twentieth Century Sculpture, March - May 1999, pp. 16, 44, illustrated