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DAVID SMITH (1906-1965)

Lot 31
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Lot 31 | DAVID SMITH (1906-1965)
Estimate value
$ 1 000 000 – 1 500 000
DAVID SMITH (1906-1965)
Egyptian Landscape
stamped with the artist’s signature, inscription and date ‘David Smith G2 1951’ (on a metal plate welded to the base)
steel, bronze and paint
26 ¾ x 49 5/8 x 18 ¾ in. (67.9 x 126 x 47.6 cm.)
Executed in 1951.




Provenance

Estate of the artist
Marlborough Gallery, New York
Jane and Richard D. Lombard, Rye, New York, 1970
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2001



Literature

F. O’Hara, “David Smith: The Color of Steel,” ARTnews, vol. 60, no. 8, December 1961, p. 70.
B. Gelman, "SIU Gallery Exhibits Metal Sculpture," Southern Illinoisan, 17 January 1963, p. 24 (illustrated).
David Smith 1906-1965, exh. cat., Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 1966, p. 72, no. 199.
C. Gray, ed., David Smith by David Smith, New York, 1968, p. 64 (illustrated).
D. L. Shirey, “Man of Iron,” Newsweek, vol. 73, no. 13, 31 March 1969, pp. 78-80 (illustrated).
R. Fabri, “David Smith Retrospective,” The Ohio Art Graphic, 28 May 1969, pp. 16-17 (illustrated).
B. Diamonstein, ed., The Art World: A Seventy-Five-Year Treasury of ARTnews, New York, 1977, p. 312.
R. E. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York and London, 1977, pp. 27 and 50-52, fig. 249 (illustrated).
S. E. Marcus, David Smith: The Sculptor and His Work, Ithaca and London, 1983, pp. 53-54, 75 and 110, fig. 18 (illustrated).
M. Brenson, “David Smith: Freedom and Myth,” Sculpture, vol. 25, no. 1, January-February 2006, p. 28 (illustrated).
P. Plagens, “Modernism’s Heavy Metal,” Newsweek, vol. 147, no. 7, 13 February 2006, p. 58 (illustrated).
A. Gouk, “Steel Sculpture Part I: From Gabo to Caro,” Abstract Critical, 17 April 2014, n.p.
C. Lyon, ed., David Smith Sculpture, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932-1965, Volume Two, 1932-1953, New Haven and London, 2021, pp. 364-365, no. 289 (illustrated).
K. Wilkin, “’Songs of the Horizon: David Smith, Music, and Dance’ Review: Rhythms of Abstraction,” Wall Street Journal, 9 August 2023, digital.
A. Thompson, “Songs of the Horizon: David Smith, Music and Dance,” Brooklyn Rail, September 2023, digital.
A. F. Hall, “The Mind of the Welder,” Lake George Mirror, 6 September 2023, digital.



Exhibited

New York, Kleemann Galleries, David Smith: Sculpture and Drawing, April 1952, n.p., no. 8.
New York, Fine Arts Associates (Otto Gerson Gallery), Sculpture by David Smith, September-October 1957, n.p., no. 1 (illustrated).
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester; Phillips Exeter Academy, Lamont Art Gallery; Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hayden Gallery; Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection; Indianapolis, John Herron Museum of Art; Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum; Carbondale, Southern Illinois University and San Antonio, Witte Memorial Museum, David Smith, November 1961-March 1963.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, David Smith, March-December 1969, pp. 12, 24 and 72-73, no. 39 (illustrated).
New York, Drawing Center and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Sculptors' Drawings Over Six Centuries, 1400-1950, March-September 1981, n.p. (illustrated).
Indianapolis Museum of Art and New Orleans Museum of Art, Crossroads of American Sculpture: David Smith, George Rickey, John Chamberlain, Robert Indiana, William T. Wiley, Bruce Nauman, October 2000-September 2001, p. 87 (illustrated).
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, David Smith: A Centennial, February-May 2006, pp. 302 and 311, no. 56 (illustrated).
Glens Falls, Hyde Collection, Songs of the Horizon: David Smith, Music, and Dance, June-September 2023, pp. 31 and 62, pl. 30 (illustrated).
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