Contemporary Day Auction

Contemporary Day Auction

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 362. Structure 38.

David Smith

Structure 38

Auction Closed

May 14, 09:30 PM GMT

Estimate

180,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

David Smith

1906 - 1965


Structure 38

steel on stainless steel base

26 by 25 by 13 in.

66 by 63.5 by 33 cm.

Executed circa 1956.

Please refer to Sothebys.com for the correct information for this lot.
French & Company, Inc., New York
Malcolm and Janet Bosse, New York (acquired from the above in 1960)
Private Collection, New York (acquired by descent in 2002)
Sotheby's, New York, 13 May 2021, lot 240
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exh. Cat., Cambridge, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum (and traveling), David Smith: 1906-1965. A Retrospective Exhibition, 1966, no. 298
Rosalind E. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 1977, no. 383, p. 74, illustrated
Christopher Lyon, ed., David Smith Sculpture III: A Catalogue Raisonné, Volume III 1954-1965, New Haven, 2021, no. 433, p. 71, illustrated in color
New York, French & Company, Inc., Sculpture by David Smith, February 1960, no. 42, illustrated
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; San Antonio Museum of Art, David Smith: Painter, Sculptor, Draftsman, November 1982 - June 1983, no. 119