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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 16, 2018 | Sotheby's | New York | Raising The Bar: Masterworks from the Collection of Morton and Barbara Mandel | 14 | $****** - ****** | Excellent | LAND COASTER |
sculpture
246.4 x 68.6 x 73.7 cm (97.01 x 27.01 x 29.02 in)
painted steel
inscribed with the artist's signature and dated 2/10/60
Estate of the Artist
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lloyd, Nassau (acquired from the above in December 1969)
Mrs. Pierre Schlumberger, Paris
Christie's New York, November 9, 1993, Lot 24 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection
Sotheby's, New York, November 1, 1994, Lot 20 (consigned by the above)
The Pace Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1995
New York, French & Co., Sculpture by David Smith, February - March 1960, no. 21
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Dallas, The Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; and Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery, David Smith, March - December 1969, p. 114, no. 67, illustrated
David Smith, "Notes on My Work," Arts Magazine 34, no. 5, February 1960, p. 47, illustrated (in progress at the artist's Bolton Landing workshop)
Exh. Cat., Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (and travelling), David Smith 1906 - 1965: A retrospective exhibition, 1966, p. 78, no. 391 (text)
David Lee, "David Smith alla Guggenheim," Le Arti XIXI, no. 9, September 1969, p. 31, illustrated
Cleve Gray, Ed., David Smith by David Smith: Sculpture and Writings, New York and London, 1968, p. 136, illustrated (in progress at the artist's Bolton Landing workshop)
Rosalind E. Krauss, Terminal Iron Works: The Sculpture of David Smith, Cambridge, 1971, p. 9, illustrated (in progress at the artist's Bolton Landing workshop)
Patricia Railing, "La Sculpture Américaine de 1940 à 1959," XXe Siecle 40, June 1973, p. 157, illustrated
Rosalind Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York and London, 1977, p. 90, no. 490 (text), and n.p., illustrated
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, David Smith, 1982, p. 31, illustrated (in progress at the artist's Bolton Landing workshop), pp. 31-33 (text), pp. 173-174 (text), and p. 176, no. 4, illustrated
Stanley E. Marcus, David Smith: The Sculptor and His Work, Ithaca, 1983, p. 125, no. 49, illustrated (in progress at the artist's Bolton Landing workshop)
Exh. Cat., Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen (and travelling), David Smith: Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, 1986, p. 44, illustrated (in progress at the artist's Bolton Landing workshop)
Exh. Cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, David Smith: Related Clues, 2004, p. 3, illustrated (in progress at Bolton Landing), and p. 35, illustrated (in progress at the artist's Bolton Landing workshop)
Exh. Cat., Dallas, Texas, Nasher Sculpture Center, David Smith: Drawing and Sculpting, 2005, p. 47, no. 10, illustrated (in progress at the artist's Bolton Landing workshop)
Exh. Cat., Düsseldorf, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, David Smith: Working Surface: Painting, Sculpture, Drawing 1932-63, 2009, p. 96, no. 4, illustrated (in progress at the artist's Bolton Landing workshop)
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, David Smith Invents, 2011, p. 79, illustrated (in progress at the artist's Bolton Landing workshop)
Sarah Hamill, David Smith: Works, Writings, Interviews, Barcelona, 2011, p. 68, illustrated (in progress at the artist's Bolton Landing workshop)
Sarah Hamill, David Smith in Two Dimensions: Photography and the Matter of Sculpture, Oakland, 2015, p. 7, no. 5, illustrated (in progress at the artist's Bolton Landing workshop)
Susan J. Cooke, Ed., Collected Writings, Lectures, and Interviews, Oakland, 2018, p. 337 (text)
inscribed with the artist's signature and dated 2/10/60
painted steel
97 by 27 by 29 in. 246.4 by 68.6 by 73.7 cm.
