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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 9, 2010 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 24 | $****** - ****** | Race For Survival (Spectre Of Profit) |
sculpture
48.3 x 85.1 x 17.1 cm (19.02 x 33.5 x 6.73 in)
steel and stainless steel on wood base
stamped signed and dated 1946 on the side of the steel base
Estate of the artist Willard Gallery, New York Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York Nathan and Elisabeth Allen, Greenwich (acquired from the above in April 1968) David Wierdsma, Greenwich (acquired by descent from the above in 1974)
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1976.
Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, David Smith, January 1947 Saratoga Springs, Skidmore College, Sculpture and Drawings by David Smith, February 1947 New York, Willard Gallery, David Smith, Sculpture 1946 - 1947, April 1947, illustrated New York, Kleeman Gallery, group show, May 1948 Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Sculpture in our Time from Maillol to the Present, March 1949, cat. no. 29, illustrated (titled Spectre - Race for Survival) Iowa City, State University of Iowa, Fifth Summer Exhibition of Contemporary Art, June - August, 1949, cat. no. 53 Lincoln, Massachusetts, De Cordova and Dana Museum, Three Dimensional for Modern Living: Sculpture Furniture, October - November 1951 New York, The Sculpture Center, 46 Sculptors, December 1951 - January 1952, checklist no. 37 Dallas, Neiman Marcus Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture: New Shapes and New Forms, September 1952, checklist no. 13 New York, The Sculpture Center, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition: "American Sculpture 1928-1953: the tumultuous quarter-century", March - April 1953, cat. no. 76, illustrated Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, American Sculpture Today, September - October 1956 New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., David Smith, Small Sculpture of the Mid-Forties, May - June 1968, cat. no. 10, illustrated.
"School of Art-David Smith", Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Bulletin, January 1947, illustrated Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Yearbook, 1947, p. 15 (illustration of artist with the sculpture at the Institute's January 1947 Smith exhibition) Ben Wolf, "David Smith Displays Mechanized Sculpture", Art Digest, April 15, 1947, p. 18, illustrated Clement Greenberg, The Nation, April 19, 1947, pp. 459-460 (text) Hilton Kramer, Arts Magazine, XXXIV, February 1960, p. 33, illustrated Exh. Cat., Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum (and travelling), David Smith 1906 - 1965, 1966, no. 158, p. 70 (text reference) Rosalind E. Krauss, Terminal Iron Works: the Sculpture of David Smith, Cambridge, 1971, pp. 126 and 140 (text) New York Times, November 12, 1976, p. C-19, illustrated (ad for Allen estate auction) Rosalind E. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1977, fig. 209, illustrated Stanley E. Marcus, David Smith: the Sculptor and his Work, Ithaca, 1983, pp. 56-59 (text) Joan Pachner, "Theodore Roszak and David Smith: a Question of Balance", Arts Magazine, February 1984, p. 109, illustrated Robert S. Lubar, "Metaphor and Meaning in David Smith's Jurassic Bird", Arts, September 1984, p. 85, illustrated David Anfam, Abstract Expressionism, London, 1990, p. 99 (text).
