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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 29, 2020 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 21 | $****** - ****** | AGRICOLA VII |
sculpture
55.9 x 33 x 24.1 cm (22 x 13 x 9.5 in)
steel and cast iron, painted red
Estate of the artist
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Dr. and Mrs. Richard Kaplan, Philadelphia (acquired from the above in October 1966)
Christie's, New York, 3 May 1988, Lot 7 (consigned by the above)
Collection of Candida and Rebecca Smith, New York
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in February 2000
Washington, D.C., Catholic University of America, Drawings, Paintings, and Sculptures by David Smith, October - November 1952
New York, Kootz Gallery, David Smith: New Sculpture, January - February 1953, no. 6
Detroit Institute of Arts, Works in Progress: Paintings by Kurt Seligmann; Metal Sculpture by David Smith, February - March 1955
Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Friends Collect, January - February 1967, no. 61
Mountainville, New York, Storm King Art Center, The Fields of David Smith, May - November 1997, p. 141 (text)
Herman Cherry, "David Smith," Numero 5, No. 3, May - June 1953, pp. 20-21, illustrated
Eugene Goossen, "David Smith," Arts, Vol. 30, No. 6, March 1956, p. 26, illustrated (incorrectly titled Agricola IV)
Exh. Cat, Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (and traveling), David Smith, 1906-1965: A Retrospective Exhibition, September 1966 - February 1967, p. 73 (text)
Rosalind E. Krauss, "The Essential David Smith, Part II," Artforum, April 1969, p. 38
Rosalind E. Krauss, Terminal Iron Works: The Sculpture of David Smith, Cambridge 1971, p. XIII (text), and p. 162, no. 133, illustrated
Rosalind E. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York and London 1977, p. 56, no. 271 (text), and p. 277, illustrated
Karen Wilkin, "At the Galleries," Partisan Review, Summer 1992, pp. 486-87, illustrated
Michael Kilian, “Priceless Works,” Chicago Tribune, 25 February 1992, n.p. (text) (online)
Exh. Cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, David Smith: A Centennial, 2006, p. 76 (text)
