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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2024 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Day Auction | 299 | $****** - ****** | Vertical Pistol Sculpture |
sculpture
116.8 x 40 x 38.7 cm (46 x 15.75 x 15.25 in)
steel
incised with the artist"s signature and date 1952 (on a metal plaque)
Estate of the artist
Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich
Acquired from the above in August 2011 by the present owner
New York, Kootz Gallery, David Smith: New Sculpture , January - February 1953, no. 17
Boston, Margaret Brown Gallery, Modern Sculpture Show , September - October 1953
Detroit Institute of Arts, Works in Progress: David Smith Metal Sculptures , February - March 1955
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The One-Hundred and Fifty-First Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture , January - February 1956, no. 171
New York, Knoedler Gallery, David Smith: Small Sculptures , March - April 1976
Mountainville, New York, Storm King Art Center, David Smith , May - October 1976, p. 13
Washington, D.C., International Sculpture Center; Tokyo, Sezon Museum of Art; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art; Shiga, The Museum of Modern Art and Chiba, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, David Smith , April - November 1994, no. 25, p. 46, illustrated
Mountainville, Storm King Art Center, The Fields of David Smith (Part I ) , May - November 1997, p. 9 and p. 141
Bronxville, Sarah Lawrence College, Forging New Visions: Teaching the Visual Arts at Sarah Lawrence College , November - December 2004, p. 19, illustrated in color and p. 23
Exh. Cat., Boston, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, David Smith 1906-1965: A Retrospective Exhibition , 1966, no. 222, p. 73
Noel Frackman, "Art Reviews," Arts Magazine 50 , no. 10, New York, June 1976, p. 21
Rosalind Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné , London, 1977, no. 284, p. 58, illustrated
D. Dominick Lombardi, "ART REVIEWS; The Subtle Dynamics of Geometry in the Everyday World," The New York Times , 5 December 2004, Section WC, p. 14
Christopher Lyon, Ed., David Smith Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932 - 1965, Volume One Essays, Chronology, References , New Haven and London, 2021, no. 222, p. 356
Christopher Lyon, Ed., David Smith Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932 - 1965, Volume Two 1932 - 1953 , New Haven and London, 2021, no. 313, pp. 392, illustrated in color and p. 393, illustrated
David Smith
1906 - 1965
Vertical Pistol Sculpture
incised with the artist"s signature and date 1952 (on a metal plaque)
steel
46 by 15 ¾ by 15 ¼ in.
116.8 by 40 by 38.7 cm.
Executed in 1952.
