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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 13, 2008 | Christie's | New York | Post War And Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 29 | $****** - ****** | Widow's Lament |
sculpture
38.1 x 50.8 x 16.8 cm (15 x 20 x 6.61 in)
bronze with green patina and welded steel
The Estate of David Smith, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
New York, Willard Gallery, David Smith, 1943, no. 13. New York, Buchholz Gallery and Willard Gallery, The Sculpture of David Smith, 1946, no. 31. St. Paul Gallery and School of Art, 1946. Worcester, John Woodman Higgins Armory, 1947. Bennington College, David Smith, 1951 (exhibited as Lament). New York, Museum of Modern Art; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester; Exeter, Phillips Exeter Academy, Lamont Gallery; Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hayden Gallery; Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection; Indianapolis, John Herron Museum of Art; Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum; Carbondale, Southern Illinois University and San Antonio, Witte Memorial Museum, David Smith, 1961-1963. New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery, David Smith, 1969, no. 21, pp. 11 and 39 (illustrated). Edmonton Art Gallery; Seattle Art Museum; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Art Gallery of Hamilton; Art Gallery of Windsor and New York, M. Knoedler and Company, 1981-1982, no. 15, pp. 17-18, 22, 48 and 73 (illustrated). New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne and London, Tate Modern, David Smith: A Centennial, 2006-2007, pp. 22, 29-30 and 288-289, no. 25 (illustrated).
H. Kramer, "Sculpture of David Smith," Arts, vol. 34 (February 1960), p. 32. David Smith 1906-1965: A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1966, p. 68. R. Krauss, Passages in Modern Sculpture, New York, 1977, p. 27, fig. 150. M. Kangas, "David Smith: Paradox of Sex," Vanguard, vol. 10 (Summer 1981), p. 17. S. E. Marcus, David Smith: The Sculpture and His Work, New York, 1983, p. 69 and 72 (illustrated). K. Wilkin, David Smith, New York, 1984, pp. 8, 11, 95 and 96 (illustrated). D. Anfam, Abstract Expressionism, London, 1990, pp. 99-100 (illustrated). David Smith, Sculptures 1933-1964, exh. cat., Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2006, (illustrated on the cover). K. Silver, "The Colossus of Bolton Landing," Art in America (October 1, 2006).
