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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 11, 2016 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 28 | $****** - ****** | ZIG I |
sculpture
245.1 x 144.8 x 81.9 cm (96.5 x 57.01 x 32.24 in)
painted steel
inscribed with the artist's signature, titled and dated 4-15-1961 on the lowest horizontal plane
Estate of the Artist
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Catherine Schlumberger Jones, Washington, D.C.
Sotheby's, New York, November 6, 1990, Lot 12 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, The Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, October 1961 - January 1962, no. 521
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Sculpture: A Generation of Innovation, June - August 1967
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, David Smith: Seven Major Themes, November 1982 - April 1983, p. 110, illustrated and illustrated (detail) and pp. 109 and 111 (text)
Valencià, IVAM, Centre Julio González; and Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, David Smith: 1906-1965, January - July 1996, p. 229, illustrated (detail)
North Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, David Smith: Stop Action, December 1998 - February 1999, no. 8 (checklist)
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, David Smith: Paintings, Sculptures, and Medals, November 1999 - February 2000, p. 66, no. 41, illustrated
Gainesville, Florida, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Extended Loan, 2012 - March 2016
Ralph Brem, "$1000 Prize Refused: Fourth of 'Zig Field' Center of Art Hassle," Pittsburgh Press, October 31, 1961, p. 28 (text)
"Sculptor Rejects Award of $1,000," New York Times, November 1, 1961 (text)
Mel Gonick, "Area Artist Returns $1,000 So Museum May Buy Art," Troy Record, November 2, 1961, n.p. (text)
Exh. Cat., Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (and travelling), David Smith: 1906-1965, 1966, p. 79, no. 424 (checklist)
Exh. Cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, David Smith, 1969, p. 125 (text)
Rosalind E. Krauss, Terminal Iron Works: The Sculpture of David Smith, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1971, p. 9, fig. 3a, illustrated (in the artist's Bolton Landing workshop)
Rosalind E. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York and London, 1977, fig. 531, illustrated and p. 97 (text)
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, From The Life of the Artist: A Documentary View of David Smith. An Exhibition Drawn from the David Smith Papers, 1982, p. 55, illustrated (at Bolton Landing)
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, David Smith: Painter, Sculptor, Draftsman, 1982, p. 17 (text)
Phyllis Tuchman, "In Detail: David Smith and Cubi XXVIII," Portfolio, Vol. 5, January - February 1983, p. 81 (text)
Stanley E. Marcus, David Smith: The Sculptor and His Work, 1983, p. 135, fig. 52 (reproduction of 1961 New York Times article)
Exh. Cat., Leeds, Henry Moore Centre, Leeds City Art Galleries, David Smith: Medals For Dishonor 1937-1940, 1991, p. 17 (text)
Deborah K. Dietsch, "Geometry in Motion," Sun-Sentinel, Tampa, Florida, January 3, 1999, n.p., illustrated (online resource)
Exh. Cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, Group Sculpture Show, 1999, p. 2 (text)
Elisa Turner, "David Smith," Art News, V. 98, No. 6, June 1999, p. 133, illustrated in color
Angela Levine, "The Anvil of Smith," Jerusalem Post, December 10, 1999, p. B14 (text)
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy, 2011, p. 104, fig. 10, illustrated (in progress in the artist’s Bolton Landing workshop)
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, David Smith Invents, 2011, pp. 56-57, illustrated (in installation at Bolton Landing)
