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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 11, 2009 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art, Evening | 46 | $****** - ****** | Bathers |
sculpture
35.6 x 35.6 x 17.8 cm (14.02 x 14.02 x 7.01 in)
steel
incised with the artist's signature and date '40 on the sculpture; incised with the artist's signature on the base
Marian Willard and Dan Rhodes Johnson, New York (acquired directly from the artist) Miani Johnson, New York (by descent from the above) Diva Fine Arts S.A., Geneva
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
New York, Neumann-Willard Gallery, David Smith, March - April 1940, cat. no. 3 Cambridge, MA, 15 Sculptors, May/June 1941 New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1942-43 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, November 1942 - January 1943, cat. no. 115 New York, Buchholz and Willard Gallery, The Sculpture of David Smith, January 1946, cat. no. 11 David Smith (exhibition organized by American Association of University Women and the Willard Gallery, traveling to over a dozen venues in the United States) 1946 - 1951 (not shown at all venues) New York, Willard Gallery, Selections: Marian Willard Collection, March 1947, cat. no. 25 New York, Kleeman Gallery, Group Show, May 1948 Edmonton, The Edmonton Art Gallery; Seattle Art Museum; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Ontario, Art Gallery of Hamilton; Ontario, Art Gallery of Windsor, David Smith: the Formative Years: Sculptures and Drawings from the 1930s and 1940s, January 1981 - January 1982, cat. no. 13, pp. 46-47, illustrated New York, Zabriskie Gallery, Eight New York School Sculptors: 1940 - 1955, April - May 1983 New Brunswick, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, Dorothy Dehner and David Smith: Their Decades of Search and Fullfillment, January - March 1984, cat. no. 40, p. 52, illustrated New York, Washburn Gallery, David Smith Painting into Sculpture, October - December 1990, illustrated New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (and traveling), David Smith: a Centennial, February - May 2006, cat. no. 23, pl. 23, illustrated in color (New York only)
Elizabeth McCausland, ``David Smith's Abstract Sculpture in Metals'', The Springfield Sunday Union and Republican, March 31, 1940, p. 6E Ernest W. Watson, ``David Smith - From Studio to Forge'', American Artist, vol. 4, no. 3 (March 1940), p. 21, illustrated David Smith, ``Sculpture: Art Forms in Architecture.. New Techniques Affect Both'', Architectural Record 88 (Oct. 1940), p. 77, illustrated Milton W. Brown, ``American Art a Year after Pearl Harbor'', Art News, Dec. 1, 1942, p. 10, illustrated Maude Riley, ``The Modern Idiom in Concrete Terms: the Sculpture of David Smith'', MKR's Outlook no. 7 (Feb. 1946), p. 5, illustrated ``Notes and Topics: Publications Received'', The Architects Journal, April 25, 1946, p. 134, illustrated Exh. Cat., Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, David Smith: 1906-1965: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1966, p. 66, illustrated Garnett McCoy, ed., David Smith, New York, 1973, fig. no. 14, p. illustrated Rosalind E. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1977, cat. no. 134, fig. 134, illustrated Karen Wilkin, ``David Smith: the Formative Years'', Update (the Edmonton Art Gallery), vol. 2, no. 1 (Jan/Feb 1981), p. 2, illustrated Alain Kirili, ``David Smith: the Cult of the Solar Nude'', Sculpture, vol. 13, no. 3 (May-June 1994), p. 35, illustrated Steven C. Munson, ``David Smith's Vision'', Commentary, vol. 121, no. 5 (May 2006), pp. 62-64.
