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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 18, 2016 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Day Auction | 109 | $****** - ****** | AD MARE |
sculpture
69.9 x 68.6 x 20.3 cm (27.52 x 27.01 x 7.99 in)
welded steel construction
incised with the artist's signature and date 1938 on the prow
Willard Gallery, New York
Sibley Smith, Wakefield, Rhode Island (acquired from the above in 1946)
Silbey Smith Jr. and Cecile Cohen, Wakefield, Rhode Island (by descent from the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2013
New York, Neumann-Willard Gallery, David Smith, March - April 1940, cat. no. 4, illustrated on the cover of the brochure
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artists for Victory: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, December 1942 - February 1943, p. 31
New York, Buchholz Gallery; New York, Neumann-Willard Gallery, The Sculpture of David Smith, January 1946, cat. no. 3
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; San Antonio Museum of Art, David Smith: Painter, Sculptor, Draftsman, November 1982 - June 1983, pl. no. 1, cat. no. 35, p. 48, illustrated (incorrectly listed as not in the exhibition)
Elizabeth McCausland, “David Smith’s Abstract Sculpture in Metals,” The Springfield Sunday Union and Republican, 31 March 1940, p. 6E
Ernest W. Watson, “David Smith—From Studio to Forge,” American Artist, Vol. 4, No. 3, March 1940, p. 22, illustrated
Robert M. Coates, “The Art Galleries: Past and Present,” The New Yorker, Vol. 21, 12 January 1946, p. 50
Ben Wolf, “Steel and Iron,” Art Digest, Vol. 20, No. 8, 15 January 1946, p. 20
Robert Cronbach, “About Artists by Artists,” New Masses, Vol. 58, No. 8, 19 February 1946, p. 27
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., American Association of University Women, David Smith, 1946, cat. no. 9
Lura Beam, “David Smith,” Journal of the American Association of University Women, Vol. 43, No. 3, Spring 1950, illustrated on the back cover
Hilton Kramer, “The Sculpture of David Smith,” ARTS Magazine, February 1960, p. 27, illustrated
Joan Patchner, "Theodore Roszak and David Smith: A Question of Balance," Arts Magazine, February 1964, fig. no. 15, p. 104, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum (and travelling), David Smith, 1906-1965, 1966, cat. no. 49, p. 66
Garnett McCoy, David Smith, New York 1973, pl. no. 18, illustrated
Rosalind Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: Catalogue Raisonné, New York 1977, fig. no. 112, p. 21, illustrated
Stanley E. Marcus, David Smith: The Sculptor and His Work, Ithaca 1983, p. 50 and 53
ARTS Magazine, Vol. 58, Issues 6-8, 1984, work cited with incorrect date
Exh. Cat., New York, Independent Curators Incorporated, David Smith: Medals for Dishonor, 1996, p. 35
Aurelie Barnier, “Une Revue de l’expressionnisme Abstrait Americain: Possibilities (1947-1948),” Les Cahiers du Musee National d’art Moderne, No. 71, Paris, Spring 2000, p. 112, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, David Smith: Sculptures 1933-1964, 2006, p. 43
Katy Siegel, Abstraction Expressionism, New York 2011, p. 41, illustrated in color
Paula Wisotzki, "Constructing Meaning: the Albany Exhibition of David Smith's Medals for Dishonor," Left History, Vol. 15, No. 2, Chicago 2011, p. 31
incised with the artist's signature and date 1938 on the prow
welded steel construction
27 1/2 by 27 by 8 in. 69.9 by 68.6 by 20.3 cm.
