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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 11, 2016 | Christie's | New York | Post-War & Contemporary Morning Session | 158 | $****** - ****** | Landscape with Strata |
sculpture
48.9 x 51.4 x 23.2 cm (19.25 x 20.24 x 9.13 in)
steel, bronze and stainless steel on marble base
incised with the artist's signature and dated 'David Smith 1946' (on a plate affixed to the bronze base)
Estate of the artist Marlborough-Gershon Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1968
New York, Willard Gallery, David Smith: Sculpture, 1946-1947 , April 1947, no. 7. Worcester, John Woodman Higgins Armory, David Smith Collection , June-October 1947. Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Sculpture and Drawings: David Smith , April-May 1952, no. 8. Washington, D.C., Catholic University of America, Drawings, Paintings, Sculptures by David Smith , October-November 1952. New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, David Smith: Small Sculptures of the Mid-Forties , May–June 1968, no. 8 (illustrated). New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery, David Smith , March-November 1969, p. 49, no. 27 (illustrated). Mountainville, Storm King Art Center, David Smith Exhibition , May-October 1976, p. 6. Alberta, Edmonton Art Gallery; Manitoba, Winnipeg Art Gallery; Ontario, Art Gallery of Windsor; Seattle Art Museum; Ontario, Art Gallery of Hamilton and New York, M. Knoedler and Company, David Smith, The Formative Years: Sculptures and Drawings from the 1930s and 1940s , January 1981-May 1982, pp. 22 and 63, fig. 43, no. 30 (illustrated). New Brunswick, Rutgers University, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum and Saratoga Springs, Skidmore College Art Gallery, Dorothy Dehner and David Smith: Their Decades of Search and Fulfillment , January-May 1984, pp. 12-14, 54, fig. 14, no. 43 (illustrated). New York, Museum of Modern Art; Detroit Institute of Arts and Dallas Museum of Art, "Primitivism" in Twentieth Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern , September 1984-September 1985, p. 648. Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen; Frankfurt, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut and London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, David Smith , March 1986-January 1987, pp. 38 and 65, no. 14 (illustrated). New York, Associated American Artists, The Development of Sculptural Form, Auguste Rodin, Alexander Archipenko, Louise Nevelson, David Smith, Nancy Graves , December 1989, no. 25 (illustrated). Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Museum of Art, American Vanguards , January-April 1996, pp. 57 and 79 (illustrated). Mountainville, Storm King Art Center, The Fields of David Smith , May-November 1997, p. 3. Roslyn Harbor, Nassau County Museum of Art, Twentieth Century Sculpture , March–May 1999, pp. 20 and 44 (illustrated). New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou and London, Tate Modern, David Smith: A Centennial , February 2006-January 2007, pp. 24, 29 and 300, pl. 42, no. 42 (illustrated)
C. Greenberg, "Art" The Nation , vol. 164, April 1947, p. 460. H. Kramer, "The Sculpture of David Smith" Arts , vol. 34, February 1960, p. 33 (illustrated). J. H. Cone, David Smith 1906-1965: A Retrospective Exhibition , Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1966, p. 70, no. 152. R. Krauss, Terminal Iron Works: The Sculpture of David Smith , Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1971, pp. 144-147 and 153, figs. 119-120 (illustrated). R. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York and London, 1977, p. 40, no. 204 (illustrated). J. Pachner, "David Smith: The Formative Years" Arts , vol. 56, no. 10, June 1982, p. 61. J. Russell, "Sculpture: David Smith" New York Times , 30 April 1982, p. C24. K. Wilkin, David Smith , New York, 1984, pp. 35, 95-97, no. 113 (illustrated). D. Anfam, Abstract Expressionism , London, 1990, p. 99. K. Wilkin, "David Smith at Storm King" The New Criterion , vol. 16, no. 1, September 1997, p. 42. C. Smith, The Fields of David Smith , Mountainville, 1999, pp. 70, 80 and 140 (illustrated). M. Fried, "David Smith" Artforum , vol. 44, no. 10, summer 2006, p. 342. K. Wilkin, "At the Galleries" Hudson Review , vol. 59, July 2006, n.p. J. Pachner, David Smith , London, 2013, pp. 40 and 45, no. 38 (illustrated)
