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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 13, 2012 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 20 | $****** - ****** | Untitled |
sculpture
223.5 x 83.8 x 60 cm (87.99 x 32.99 x 23.62 in)
steel, painted white
inscribed with the artist's name and dated 1-28-63 along the edge of the vertical panel
Estate of the artist
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in March 2004
Exh. Cat. Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum and travelling, David Smith 1906-1965: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1966, checklist no. 487, p. 81; Hilton Kramer, "Altering of Smith Work Stirs Dispute," The New York Times, September 13, 1974, p. 28, illustrated ; Paul Richard, "The Alteration of David Smith's Sculpture: An Esthetic Crime?" The Washington Post, September 22, 1974, p. H5, illustrated; Rosalind E. Krauss, "Issues and Commentary: Changing the Work of David Smith," Art in America 62, September - October 1974, pp. 30-31, illustrated in color; Rosalind E. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York and London, 1977, cat. no. 628, fig. no. 628, illustrated; Exh. Cat.,Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, David Smith, 1982, fig. 32, p. 61, illustrated (at Bolton Landing, Spring 1963) and fig. 33, p. 62, illustrated (at Bolton Landing, June 1965); Exh. Cat. Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Smithsonian Institution, From The Life of the Artist: A Documentary View of David Smith. An Exhibition Drawn from the David Smith Papers, 1982, p. 49, illustrated in color; John Beardsley, "Critic at Large: Storm King's Muse," Landscape Architecture 88, no. 8, August 1998, p. 139, illustrated in color; Irving Sandler and Candida Smith, The Fields of David Smith, New York & London,1999, illustrated: pp. 4-5 (at Storm King, 1998, color), p. 8 (at Bolton Landing, 1963), p. 23 (at Bolton Landing, 1965, color), p. 42 (at Bolton Landing, 1967), pp. 62-63 (at Bolton Landing, 1963), pp. 86-87 (at Storm King, 1997, color), p. 89 (at Storm King, 1997, color), p. 112 (at Storm King, 1998), and pp. 114-115 (at Storm King, 1998, color); Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, David Smith: A Centennial, 2006, fig. 8, p. 48 and fig. 9, p. 49, illustrated (at Bolton Landing, 1965); Sarah Hamill, David Smith: Works, Writings, Interview, Barcelona, 2011, p. 13, illustrated
