DAVID SMITH (1906-1965)

Lot 601
15.05.2025 10:00UTC -04:00
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$ 250 000
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Lot 601 | DAVID SMITH (1906-1965)
Estimate value
$ 250 000 – 350 000
DAVID SMITH (1906-1965)
Head as Figure
incised with the artist's signature and stamped with the date 'David Smith 1945' (on the central right element)
steel and paint
16 x 8 5/8 x 16 ¼ in. (40.6 x 21.6 x 40.9 cm.)
Executed in 1945.




Provenance

The artist
Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Glasgall, New York, 1963
By descent from the above to the present owner



Literature

J. D. Feinberg, "David Smith: Illusion in the 3rd Dimension," Harvard Crimson, 12 November 1966, n.p.
David Smith 1906-1965. A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., Cambridge, Harvard College, 1966, n.p., no. 105, fig. 12.
R. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York and London, 1977, p. 32, no. 179 (illustrated).
K. Wilkin, David Smith, New York, 1984, pp. 35-37 (illustrated).
K. E. Silver, "The Colossus of Bolton Landing," Art in America, no. 9, October 2006, p. 156.
C. Lyon, ed., David Smith Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932-1965, 1932-1953, New Haven and London, 2021, vol. 2, p. 229, no. 205 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Buchholz Gallery and Willard Gallery, The Sculpture of David Smith, January 1946, n.p., no. 42.
Washington D.C., Howard University Gallery of Art, Exhibition of Modern Sculpture, January-February 1947, n.p., no. 23 (illustrated on the cover).
Worcester, John Woodman Higgins Armory, David Smith Collection, June-October 1947.
Boston, Margaret Brown Gallery, October 1951.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation, June-October 1969, n.p., no. 136.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery, David Smith, March-December 1969, n.p., no. 136 (titled Head as a Figure).
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, David Smith: A Centennial, February-May 2006, p. 295, pl. 34 (illustrated).
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