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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 13, 2025 | Sotheby's | New York | Modern Evening Auction | 41 | $****** - ****** | Hi Candida |
sculpture
169.9 x 126.4 x 48.3 cm (66.88 x 49.75 x 19 in)
painted steel
inscribed with the signature David Smith , dated 1-22-1961 and inscribed - Hi Candida (on the base)
Estate of the artist
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Jeff Frederic Byers III, New York (acquired by 1973)
Acquavella Galleries, New York (acquired from the above in June 1975)
Willard W. and Carey C. Shuart, Houston (acquired from the above circa 1975)
Acquired from the above in May 1987 by the present owner
New York, Otto Gerson Gallery, David Smith: Recent Sculpture , 1961, no. 10, illustrated (titled Hicandida )
New York, Grippi Gallery, Selected Contemporary Sculpture , 1962
New York, Marlborough Gallery, Masters of the 20th Century , 1971, no. 79, p. 146, illustrated
Seattle Art Museum, American Art: Third Quarter Century , 1973, no. 63, p. 20, illustrated; and pp. 21, 101
New York, Acquavella Galleries, Group Show , 1975
Gainesville, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Contesting Terrain , 2015-16
Hilton Kramer, "Rzezbiarstwo Davida Smitha [David Smith Sculpture]," Ameryka , no. 42, 1960, p. 46, illustrated
Frank O"Hara, "David Smith: The Color of Steel," ARTnews , vol. 60, no. 8, December 1961, p. 33, illustrated (in installation, Bolton Landing)
Gillo Dorfles, "David Smith: A Lesson in Modernity," Metro , no. 4/5, Milan, 1961, no. 11, pp. 15, 18-19, illustrated (in installation, Bolton Landing)
Ulrich Gertz, Plastik der Genenwart , Berlin, 1964, p. 221, illustrated (in installation, Bolton Landing)
Exh. Cat., Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University and Washington Gallery of Modern Art, David Smith 1906-1965: A Retrospective Exhibition , 1966-67, no. 414, p. 31, illustrated (in installation, Bolton Landing); p. 78
Rosalind E., Krauss, Terminal Iron Works: The Sculpture of David Smith , Cambridge, 1971, fig. 75, p. 97, illustrated (in installation, Bolton Landing)
Garnett McCoy, ed., David Smith , New York, 1973, pl. I, p. 33, illustrated in color (in installation, Bolton Landing)
Noel Frackman, "Arts Reviews," Arts Magazine , November 1975, p. 15
Frank O"Hara, "David Smith: The Color of Steel: Three Exhibitions Are Not Enough to Show All the Current Work by the Dean of American Sculptors Working in Metal," reproduced in: Barbaralee Diamonstein, ed., The Art World: A Seventy-Five-Year Treasury of ARTnews , New York, 1977, p. 310, illustrated (in installation, Bolton Landing; titled Hicandida )
Rosalind E. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné , New York, 1977, no. 515, p. 94 (text), n.p., fig. 515, illustrated (titled Hicandida )
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, David Smith: Seven Major Themes , 1982-83, fig. 27, p. 55, illustrated (in installation, Bolton Landing); p. 230 (titled Hicandida )
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Texas, San Antonio Museum of Art, David Smith: Painter, Sculptor, Draftsman , 1982-83, p. 17 (titled Hicandida )
Karen Wilkin, David Smith , New York, 1984, p. 61 (text) (titled Hicandida )
Exh. Cat., Dallas, Nasher Sculpture Center, David Smith: Drawing and Sculpting , 2005, p. 149, illustrated in color (in installation, Bolton Landing)
Exh. Cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, David Smith: A Centennial , 2006-07, p. 85; p. 448, illustrated in color (in installation, Bolton Landing) (New York); pp. 189 and 191, illustrated (in installation, Bolton Landing)
Exh. Cat., Zurich, Galerie Gmurzynska and Germany, Duisburg, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, David Smith, Working Surface: Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, 1932-63 , 2008-10, p. 35, illustrated in color (in installation, Bolton Landing)
Sarah Hamill, David Smith: Works, Writings and Interview , Barcelona, 2011, p. 131, illustrated in color (in installation, Bolton Landing)
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; and Ohio, Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts, David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy , 2011-12, fig. 9, p. 102 (text), pp. 103 and 161, illustrated (in Bolton Landing workshop)
Joan Pachner, David Smith , New York, 2013, fig. 116, p. 141, illustrated in color (in installation, Bolton Landing, 1961)
Sarah Hamill, David Smith in Two Dimensions: Photography and the Matter of Sculpture , Oakland, 2015, pl. 37, p. 127, illustrated in color (in installation, Bolton Landing)
Christopher Lyon, ed., David Smith Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932-1965, Volume Three, 1954-1965 , New Haven, 2021, no. 584, p. 232, illustrated in color; p. 233
Property from the Irma and Norman Braman Art Foundation
David Smith
(1906 - 1965)
Hi Candida
inscribed with the signature David Smith , dated 1-22-1961 and inscribed - Hi Candida (on the base)
painted steel
66 ⅞ by 49 ¾ by 19 in. 169.9 by 126.4 by 48.3 cm.
Executed in 1961.
