DAVID SMITH (1906-1965)

Lot 647
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Lot 647 | DAVID SMITH (1906-1965)
Estimate value
$ 400 000 – 600 000
DAVID SMITH (1906-1965)
Raven II
signed and dated 'David Smith 11/17/55' (on the underside)
painted steel
25 x 30 ¼ x 9 3/8 in. (63.5 x 76.5 x 23.6 cm.)
Executed in 1955.




Provenance

Estate of the artist
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. New York
Private collection, California, 1988
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 11 May 2011, lot 61
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner



Literature

R. M. Coates, "The Art Galleries: A Sculptor and Two Painters," New Yorker, vol. 36, 5 March 1960, p. 128.
David Smith 1906-1965: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., Cambridge, Fogg Museum of Art, September 1966, p. 74, no. 278.
R. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1977, p. 68, no. 346 (illustrated).
The Drawings of David Smith, exh. cat., Washington D. C., International Exhibition Foundation, 1985, p. 27.
C. Lyon, ed., David Smith Sculpture, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932-1965, Volume Three 1954-1965, New Haven and London, 2021, pp. 36-37, no. 406 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, The National Institute of Arts and Letters, An Exhibition of Works by Candidates for Grants in Art 1956, March 1956, no. 33.
São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna, V São Paulo Bienel, September-December 1959, no. 42 (illustrated).
New York, French and Company, Inc., David Smith: Sculpture, February-March 1960, no. 37 (illustrated).
Glens Falls, Hyde Collection, David Smith of Bolton Landing: Sculpture and Drawings, July-September 1973, no. 12.
Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Animals in American Art 1880s-1980s, October 1981-January 1982, p. 11, no. 42 (illustrated).
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and San Antonio Museum of Art, David Smith: Painter, Sculptor, Draftsman, November 1982-June 1983, pp. 15, 112 and 140, pl. 95, no. 117 (illustrated).
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., David Smith: Sculpture, Painting, Drawing of the Fifties, November-December 1984, p. 9, no. 3 (illustrated).
Bronxville, Sarah Lawrence College Gallery, Sculptural Expressions: Seven Artists in Metal and Drawing, 1947-1960, October-November 1985, pp. 5-6, 58-59 and 62 (illustrated).
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