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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 15, 2007 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Morning Sale | 113 | $****** - ****** | Unity of Three Forms |
sculpture
37.5 x 44.5 x 13.7 cm (14.76 x 17.52 x 5.39 in)
hollow fabricated steel and painted aluminum mounted on wooden base
signed on sculpture and on steel plate on base; dated 1937, on sculpture and on steel plate on base
Estate of the artist
Marlborough Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above
New York, Neumann-Willard Gallery, David Smith, March - April 1940, cat. no. 5 Albany Institute of History and Art, Sculptors' Guild Traveling Exhibition, February 1941, cat. no. 48 New York, Buchholz-Willard Galleries, The Sculpture of David Smith, January 1946 Dallas, Baker Hotel, American Association of University Women National Convention; Fort Wayne Civic Theater; Gary, Indiana, Gary Public Library; Ada, Worcester Pressed Steel Museum; Terra Haute, Indiana State Teachers College; Ada, Oklahoma, East Central State College; Logan, Utah, Slate A&M College; Provo, Utah, Brigham Young University; Chicago, Roosevelt College; East Lansing, Michigan State College; Youngstown, Ohio, Butler Institute of Art, Louisville Free Public Library; Iowa, Grinnell College; Rome, Georgia, Shorter College; Auburn, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, David Smith, 1946 - 1949, cat. no. 10 New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Geometric Abstraction in America, March - May 1962, cat. no. 86 New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, David Smith, 1969, cat. no. 11, p. 30, illustrated
"Special David Smith Number," Arts Magazine, vol. 34, February 1960, p. 26, illustrated Exh. Cat., Cambridge, Harvard University, Fogg Museum; Washington Gallery of Modern Art, David Smith 1906-1965, 1966, fig. 4, illustrated Rosalind R. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1977, fig. 64, illustrated
