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Works from the Collection of Jannine and Robert MacDonnell

Tony Smith

Mistake

Session begins in

May 15, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Bid

18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Works from the Collection of Jannine and Robert MacDonnell

Tony Smith

1912 - 1980


Mistake

incised with the artist's signature, date 1963 and number 3/9 (on the lower edge)

bronze with black patina

12 by 12 by 8 in.

30.5 by 30.5 by 20.3 cm.

Executed in 1963, this work is number 3 from an edition of 9 plus 1 artist's proof.

Estate of the artist

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1999)

Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg New York, 12 November 2002, lot 102 (consigned by the above)

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 2005 by the present owner

Birmingham, Susanne Hillberry Gallery, Tony Smith, 1987 (another example exhibited)

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Tony Smith: Architect, Painter, Sculptor, July - September 1998, p. 137, illustrated (model)

San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, Line, Color, Form, July - August 1999 (another example exhibited)

London, Timothy Taylor Gallery, Tony Smith, September - October 2002 (another example exhibited)

Zurich, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Tony Smith, August 23 - October 11, 2003 (another example exhibited)

Los Angeles, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Tony Smith: New York, June - August 2004

Joan Pachner, “Tony Smith: Architect, Painter, Sculptor,” PhD diss., New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, 1993

Howard Halle, "The Shape of Things to Come", Time Out New York, August 1998, p. 56

Exh. Cat., New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash and Matthew Marks Gallery, Tony Smith: Paintings and Sculpture 1960–65, 2001, p.35, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Tony Smith, 2002

Exh. Cat., Austin, Blanton Museum of Art, Through the Eyes of Texas: Masterworks from Alumni Collections, 2013, p. 52, illustrated