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DAVID SMITH (1906-1965)

Lot 599
15.05.2025 10:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 250 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1425902
Lot 599 | DAVID SMITH (1906-1965)
Estimate value
$ 250 000 – 350 000
DAVID SMITH (1906-1965)
Boaz Dancing School
stamped with the artist's signature and date 'David Smith 1945' (on the base)
steel
14 x 13 5/8 x 15 in. (35.5 x 34.3 x 38.1 cm.)
Executed in 1945.




Provenance

The artist
Frederick and Emily Genauer Gash, New York, circa 1951
Knoedler and Co., New York
Acquired from the above by Anne H. and Sid R. Bass, 1983



Literature

E. Genauer, "This Week in Art: Sculpture in Metal," New York World-Telegram, 5 January 1946, p. 5 (illustrated).
R. Cronbach, "About Artists by Artists: David Smith," New Masses, 19 February 1946, p. 27.
"In the Art Galleries: Davis Smith, Sculptor," New York Herald Tribune, 13 January 1946. sec. 5, p. 7 (titled Dancing School).
J. Stroup, "Time Out:...David Smith," Town and Country, no. 100, January 1946, p. 58.
"Art Gallery Presents Works of Sculptor in Exhibit and Lecture," Skidmore News, 13 February 1947, p. 1 (titled Boas Dance School).
E. Genauer, "Museum Shows Matta, Smith," New York Herald Tribune, 15 September 1957, p. E10 (titled Dancing School).
David Smith 1906-1965. A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1966, p. 69, no. 117.
R. E. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1977, pp. 30 and n.p., fig. 171 (illustrated).
D. Jowitt, "Dances with Sculpture," Tate Etc., no. 8, Autumn 2006, p. 98.
S. Udall, Dance and American Art, Madison, 2012, p. 51.
C. Lyon, ed., David Smith Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932-1965, 1932-1953, New Haven and London, 2021, vol. 2, pp. 256-257, no. 221 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Buchholz/Willard Galleries, The Sculpture of David Smith, January 1946, n.p., no. 28.
New York, Albany Institute of History and Art, 11th Upper Hudson Annual, May-June 1946, n.p., no. 86 (titled Boaz Dance School).
Saratoga Springs, Skidmore College, Sculpture and Drawings by David Smith, February 1947.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, David Smith: A Centennial, February-May 2006, p. 289, no. 27 (illustrated).
New York, Glens Falls, The Hyde Collection, Songs of the Horizon: David Smith, Music, and Dance, June-September 2023, pp. 12, 16, 27, 44 and 71, no. 11 (illustrated).
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