Top-100 artists:
We use our proprietary AI - LiveArt Estimate™ to calculate current market value for each artwork. Based on this data LiveArt is able to provide numerous insights into artist and artwork financial performance, including:
See the measure of artist investment performance relative to risk. A higher ratio suggests better risk-adjusted returns, indicating more consistent performance with less risk.
Explore the most prolific periods in an artist's career based on artwork production volume and current market value. It also segments these periods by category, offering insights into when the most valuable pieces were created in each category.
Free to sign up. No credit card required.
| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 16, 2017 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 41 | $****** - ****** | VOLTRI-BOLTON X |
sculpture
208 x 105.4 x 38.1 cm (81.89 x 41.5 x 15 in)
steel
inscribed with the artist's signature, titled and dated 12-22-62 on the base
Estate of the Artist
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1969
Mountainville, New York, Storm King Art Center, David Smith Exhibition, July - September, 1976
Mountainville, New York, Storm King Art Center, The Fields of David Smith [Part II], May - November 1998
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou; and London, Tate Modern, David Smith: A Centennial, February 2006 - January 2007, p. 45, fig. 31, illustrated (in installation at Bolton Landing), p. 53, fig. 35, illustrated in color (in installation at Bolton Landing), p. 193, no. 98, illustrated in color and pp. 363-366 (with the artist in progress in his Bolton Landing workshop) (New York); p. 48, illustrated (in installation at Bolton Landing), p. 49, illustrated (in installation at Bolton Landing), p. 209, no. 44, illustrated in color, pp. 210-211, illustrated (with the artist in progress in his Bolton Landing workshop), p. 323, no. 44, illustrated (Paris)
New York, Haunch of Venison, Abstract Expressionism: A World Elsewhere, September - November 2008, p. 113, no. 53, illustrated in color
London, Royal Academy of Arts; and Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, Abstract Expressionism, September 2016 - June 2017, p. 262, no. 114, illustrated in color
Giovanni Carandente, Voltron, Philadelphia, 1964, p. 54, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (and travelling), David Smith 1906 - 1965: A retrospective exhibition, 1966, p. 80, no. 475 (text)
Cleve Gray, ed., David Smith by David Smith: Sculpture and Writings, New York and London, 1968, p. 115, illustrated in color (in installation at Bolton Landing)
Rosalind E. Krauss, Terminal Iron Works: The Sculpture of David Smith, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1971, p. 165, no. 136, illustrated (in installation at Bolton Landing)
Garnett McCoy, ed., David Smith, New York and Washington, 1973, p. 53, illustrated in color (outside the artist's Bolton Landing workshop)
Stanley Marcus, The Working Methods of David Smith. PhD dissertation, Columbia University, 1972, fig. 38, p. 257, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Graphische Sammlung (and travelling), David Smith: Zeichnungen, 1976, p. 30, illustrated (in installation at Bolton Landing)
Rosalind E. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York and London, 1977, fig. 594, illustrated and p. 107 (text)
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, David Smith, 1982, pp. 34 - 35, illustrated (with the artist in progress in his Bolton Landing workshop), p. 61, illustrated (in installation at Bolton Landing), p. 146, illustrated (in installation at Bolton Landing), p. 149, illustrated (with the artist at Bolton Landing), p. 163 (text), and p. 164, no. 16, illustrated (in installation at Bolton Landing)
Exh. Cat., Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (and travelling), David Smith: Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, 1986, p. 14, illustrated (with the artist in progress in his Bolton Landing workshop), p. 31, illustrated in color (in installation at Bolton Landing), and p. 150, illustrated (in installation at Bolton Landing)
Clifford Ross, Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics, An Anthology, New York, 1990, p. 174, illustrated (with the artist in progress in his Bolton Landing workshop)
Exh. Cat., Milan, Prada Milano Arte, David Smith in Italy, 1995, p. 108, illustrated (in installation at Bolton Landing)
Stefanie Lieb, "David Smith als Bildhauer des abstrakten expressionismus und seine stahlskupturen im Museum Ludwig, Köln," Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch: Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 59, 1998, p. 285, fig. 4, illustrated (with the artist in progress in his Bolton Landing workshop)
Roberta Smith, "In the Hudson Valley, A Feast with a Price," The New York Times, July 17, 1998, p. E34, illustrated
Irving Sandler and Candida Smith, The Fields of David Smith, New York and London, 1999, p. 23, illustrated in color (in installation at Bolton Landing), p. 26, illustrated (with the artist in progress in his Bolton Landing workshop), p. 27, illustrated (with the artist at Bolton Landing), p. 42, illustrated (in installation at Bolton Landing), p. 63, illustrated (in installation at Bolton Landing), p. 71, illustrated in color (in installation at Storm King, 1998), p. 104, illustrated in color (in installation at Storm King), p. 105, illustrated in color (in installation at Storm King), p. 142 (text) and illustrated in color on the cover (in installation at Bolton Landing)
Margaret Regan, "MOCA Rising," Tucson Weekly, April 14, 2005, n.p.
David Cohen, "Between Whimsy & Gravity: The Sculpture of David Smith," Metalsmith, vol. 26, no. 5, 2006, p. 40 (text)
Exh. Cat., New York, Knoedler & Company, Seeing David Smith: Photographs by Dan Budnik, 2006, p. 24, illustrated in color (at Bolton Landing)
Holland Cotter, "Modernist Delicacy: David Smith at 100," The New York Times, February 3, 2006, p. E35, illustrated in color
Martin Gayford, "Inside the Man of Steel," Daily Telegraph (London), October 23, 2006, p. 28, illustrated
Anthony F. Hall, "At Work in the Fields of Bolton," Lake George Mirror, November 2006, p. 23, illustrated
Andrew Lambirth, "Forging ahead," Spectator (London), November 11, 2006, n.p.
Jasper Sharp, "David Smith: A Centennial," World of Interiors, vol. 26, no. 12, December 2006, p. 205, illustrated
Emmanuel Cooper, "Unconstrained Metal Guru of Form and Subject," Tribune (London), December 15, 2006, p. 24, illustrated
Eric Shanes, "Magic Giant: the Art of David Smith," Apollo, January 1, 2007, p. 82, illustrated
Luisa Somaini, "Calendario: Europa, Parigi, David Smith, Sculpture 1933-1964," La Reppublica, August 14, 2008, p. 5, illustrated
Exh. Cat., New York, Jewish Museum (and travelling), Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976, 2008, p. 156, illustrated (with the artist in progress in his Bolton Landing workshop)
Sarah Hamill, David Smith: Works, Writings, and Interviews, Barcelona, 2011, p. 13, illustrated (in installation at Bolton Landing) and p. 61, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Williamstown, Massachusetts, Clark Art Institute, Raw Color: The Circles of David Smith, 2014, pp. 10-11, illustrated in color (in installation at Bolton Landing), and p. 32, illustrated (with the artist in progress in his Bolton Landing workshop) and p. 44, illustrated (in installation at Bolton Landing)
Alan Gouk, "Steel Sculpture Part I: From Gabo to Caro," Abstract Critical, April 17, 2014, p. 5 (text)
Exh. Cat., Mountainville, New York, Storm King Art Center, David Smith: The White Sculptures, 2017, p. 2, illustrated (in installation at Bolton Landing), and p. 27, illustrated (in installation at Bolton Landing)
inscribed with the artist's signature, titled and dated 12-22-62 on the base
steel
81 7/8 by 41 1/2 by 15 in. 208 by 105.4 by 38.1 cm.
