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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 13, 2014 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale | 33 | $****** - ****** | Barons Moon |
sculpture
85 x 52 x 16.5 cm (33.46 x 20.47 x 6.5 in)
steel painted white
signed and dated 'David Smith 1958' (on the base)
Collection of the Artist. Fine Arts Associates, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Morton G. Schamberg, Highland Park, 1983. Gift from the above to the present owner, 1992.
New York, Fine Arts Associates, Sculpture and Sculptors Drawings, September-October 1959, no. 48. South Hadley, Mount Holyoke College and Northampton, Smith College, New Sculpture Now, February-May 1960. New York, Otto Gerson Gallery, Fine Arts Associates, Selections: Painting, Sculpture, summer 1960, no. 132 (illustrated). Cleveland Museum of Art, Paths of Abstract Art, October-November 1960, p. 74, no. 112 (illustrated). New York, Fine Arts Associates, (Otto M. Gerson), 19th and 20th Century Paintings and Sculpture, December 1960-January 1961. Art Institute of Chicago, 27th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Contemporary Art, April-May 1967. Arts Club of Chicago, David Smith: Spray Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, June 1983, no. 55 (illustrated). Arts Club of Chicago, Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition 1916-19991, May-June 1992 (illustrated).
Arts Magazine, Special Number: David Smith, February 1960, p. 16 (illustrated). E. Henning, Paths of Abstract Art, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art, 1960, p. 75, fig. 112 (illustrated). R. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1977, p. 82, fig. 443 (illustrated). G. Nordland, David Smith - Drawings for Sculpture: 1954-1964, exh. cat., Los Angeles, Mekler Gallery, 1981, fig. 34 (sketch illustrated). D. Getsy, 'Tactility or Opticality, Henry Moore or David Smith: Herbert Read and Clement Greenberg on The Art of Sculpture, 1956,' Sculpture Journal, 2008, vol. 17, p. 82 (illustrated).
