DAVID SMITH (1906-1965)
17.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1492530 
Lot 15  | DAVID SMITH (1906-1965)
Estimate value
2000000USD $ 2 000 000 – 3 000 000 
Circle 2 Legs
signed, titled and dated 'David Smith 3-13-63 CIRCLE 2 LEGS' (on the base)
steel and paint
107 ½ x 60 in. (273.1 x 152.4 cm.)
Executed in 1963.
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Knoedler Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the late owners, 1977
Literature
David Smith: a memorial exhibition, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1965, p. 36 (illustrated in situ).
David Smith 1906-1965: A retrospective exhibition, exh. cat., Cambridge, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, 1966, p. 81, no. 509 (titled Circle Two Legs).
G. Rickey, Constructivism: Origins and Evolution, New York, 1967, p. 137, fig. 5 (illustrated in situ; titled Circle, Two Legs).
C. Gray, ed., David Smith by David Smith: Sculpture and Writings, London, 1968, pp. 121 and 140 (illustrated in situ).
David Smith, exh. cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1969, n.p. (illustrated in situ).
R. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith, New York, 1977, p. 110, no. 613, fig. 613 (illustrated in situ).
David Smith: Sculpture and Drawings, exh. cat., Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, 1999, n.p., pl. 30 (illustrated in situ).
David Smith, exh. cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, 2010, n.p. (illustrated in situ).
C. Lyon, ed., David Smith Sculpture, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932-1965, Volume One, Essays, Chronology, References, New Haven and London, 2021, pp. 228 and 368, no. 700.
C. Lyon, ed., David Smith Sculpture, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932-1965, Volume Three, 1954-1965, New Haven and London, 2021, p. 393, no. 700 (illustrated in situ).
| Artist: | David Roland Smith (1906 - 1965) | 
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| Art style: | Post War Art | 
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures | 
| Artist: | David Roland Smith (1906 - 1965) | 
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| Art style: | Post War Art | 
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures | 
| Address of auction | CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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