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DAVID SMITH (1906-1965)

Lot 71
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Lot 71 | DAVID SMITH (1906-1965)
Estimate value
$ 1 200 000 – 1 800 000
DAVID SMITH (1906-1965)
Voltri-Bolton IV
signed, titled and dated 'David Smith VOLTRI-BOLTON IV 12-3-62' (on the base)
steel
78 ¼ x 25 ½ x 14 7/8 in. (198.8 x 64.8 x 37.9 cm.)
Executed in 1962.




Provenance

Estate of the artist
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Guido Goldman, Cambridge, 1973
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1988



Literature

G. Carandente, Voltron, Philadelphia, 1964, pp. 62 and 75 (illustrated).
David Smith, 1906-1965. A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., Cambridge, Harvard College, Fogg Art Museum, 1966, p. 80, no. 466.
C. Gray, David Smith by David Smith: Sculpture and Writings, New York, 1968, pp. 114 and 121 (illustrated in situ).
R. E. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York and London, 1977, p. 106, no. 588, fig. 588 (illustrated).
R. Storr, "David Smith: Heroic or Protean?," Art in America, vol. 71, no. 9, October 1983, p. 146 (illustrated in situ).
Selected Works from the Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura City, 1990, p. 128, no. 81 (illustrated).
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura City, 1991, pp. 56 and 60 (illustrated in situ).
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, vol. I, Sakura City, 2008, pp. 120-121 (illustrated).
Selected Works from Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura City, 2011, p. 88 (illustrated).
C. Lyon, ed., David Smith Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932-1965, Volume Three, 1954-1965, New Haven and London, 2021, pp. 357-358, no. 674 (illustrated).
M. Brenson, David Smith: The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor, New York, 2022, pp. 590-591.
Selected Works from Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura City, 2022, p. 86 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art, David Smith: Sculpture & Drawings, February-March 1964, n.p., no. 3 (illustrated).
Providence Art Club, Critics' Choice: Art Since World War II, March-April 1965, p. 43, no. 68 (illustrated).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, David Smith: Seven Major Themes, November 1982-April 1983, pp. 52, 61, 150 and 165, no. 3, figs. 18 and 32 (illustrated in situ).
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Transformations in Sculpture: Four Decades of American and European Art, November 1985-January 1986, p. 71, no. 12 (illustrated).
Tokyo, Sezon Museum of Art; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art; Shiga, Museum of Modern Art and Sakura City, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, David Smith, April-November 1994, pp. 64-65, no. 42 (illustrated).
Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Abstract Expressionism: Masterpieces from Japanese Collections, March-June 1995, pp. 55 and 57, no. 33 (illustrated).
Kagoshima City Museum of Art; Matsue, Shimane Prefectural Museum; Kure Municipal Museum of Art and Akita Senshu Museum of Art, Oya to ko de miru 20 Seiki Bijutsu Ten, July-December 1996, p. 47, no. 48 (illustrated).
Sakura City, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Arbors of Art : Eleven Rooms Where Paintings Reside, May 2015-January 2016.
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