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DAVID SMITH (1906-1965)

Lot 63
16.05.2024 19:00UTC -05:00
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$ 2 000 000
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ID 1209440
Lot 63 | DAVID SMITH (1906-1965)
Estimate value
$ 2 000 000 – 3 000 000
DAVID SMITH (1906-1965)
Smith, D.
Voltri X
signed, titled and dated 'David Smith 6/62 VOLTRI X' (on the base)
steel and paint
64 ¼ x 34 ½ x 12 in. (163.2 x 87.6 x 30.5 cm.)
Executed in 1962.




Provenance

Estate of the artist
Marlborough Galleria d’Arte, Rome
Max and Jeanne Wasserman, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, 1966
Anon. sale; Sotheby Parke Bernet, Los Angeles, 3 February 1975, lot 37
Allan Stone Gallery, New York
Andrew Crispo, New York
Anon. sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 19 November 1997, lot 16
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner



Literature

G. Caradente, Voltron, Philadelphia, 1964, pp. 34 and 43 (illustrated).
J. Jacobs, “David Smith Sculpts for Spoleto,” Art News Annual, vol. 29, 1964, p. 43 (illustrated).
David Smith 1906-1965, exh. cat., Cambridge, Harvard College, 1966, p. 79, no. 446.
B. Gold, “Smith Given Proper Setting,” Baltimore Sun, 7 August 1966, p. D24.
David Smith, exh. cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1969, p. 129.
G. McCoy, ed., David Smith, New York and Washington, D.C., 1973, p. 163.
David Smith: Zeichnungen, exh. cat., Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1976, p. 2 (illustrated).
R. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York and London, p. 103, no. 567, fig. 567 (illustrated).
American Art at Mid-Century: The Subjects of Artists, exh. cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1978, pp. 222 and 226 (illustrated).
David Smith, the Formative Years: Sculptures and Drawings from the 1930s and 1940s, exh. cat., Alberta, Edmonton Art Gallery, 1981, p. 21.
David Smith: Seven Major Themes, exh. cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1982, p. 192 (illustrated).
A. Graham-Dixon, “Exorcising Private Demons : Andrew Graham-Dixon on David Smith’s Welded Sculptures,” Harpers & Queen, November 1986, p. 370 (illustrated).
K. Hilton, “Pioneer Sculptor of the Steel Age,” News Line, 5 December 1986, p. 7 (illustrated).
P. Kipphoff, “Ausstellung in Dusseldorf: 'David Smith,' Feuer und Eisen, Der Kunstler als Selfmademan und Schwerarbeiter,“ Die Zeit, 4 April 1986, n.p. (illustrated).
David Smith: Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, exh. cat., Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 1986, pp. 2 and 15 (illustrated).
A. Graham-Dixon, "Exorcising private demons: Andrew Graham-Nixon on David Smith's welded sculptures," Harpers & Queen, November 1986, p. 368 (illustrated).
A. Marshall, “A Study of the Surfaces of David Smith’s Sculpture,” Studies in the History of Art, vol. 51, 1995, p. 97.
David Smith in Italy, exh. cat., Milan, Prada MilanoArte, 1995, pp. 1, 46 and 51 (illustrated).
David Smith, 1906-1965, exh. cat., Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, 1996, pp. 125, 127 and 129 (illustrated).
David Smith: A Centennial, exh. cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2006, pp. 43 and 81 (illustrated).
David Smith: Sculptures 1933-1964, exh. cat., Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, 2006, pp. VIII and 195 (illustrated).
G. Carandente, Sculture nella città: Spoleto 1962, Spoleto, 2007, pp. 18, 21, 112-113, 138 and 165, no. 81 (illustrated).
S. Hamill, David Smith in Two Dimensions: Photography and the Matter of Sculpture, Oakland, 2015, p. 103 (illustrated).
S. J. Cooke, ed., David Smith: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Interviews, Oakland, 2018, pp. 363-364 (illustrated).
C. Lyon, ed., David Smith Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932-1965, Volume Three, 1954-1965, New Haven and London, 2021, pp. 314-315, no. 644 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Spoleto, Festival of Two Worlds, Sculpture in the City, June-Fall 1962.
New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Three Dimensions in Sculpture: Metal, Wood and Stone: Rodin, Brancusi, Matisse, Moore, Noguchi, Serra, Smith and Wilmarth, 1977, no. 22.
Mountainville, Storm King Art Center, Drawings and Sculptures: Noguchi, Calder, and Smith, May-October 1979.
New York, Marisa del Re Gallery, Sculptures and Their Related Drawings, March-April 1981, p. 24 (illustrated).
New York, Marisa del Re Gallery, Found Objects, July 1983, no. 14.
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