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David Smith
90-12-57, 1957.
Mixed media. Egg tempera, diluted with alcohol ...
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 17,400 Sold:
€ 23,220 / $ 26,935 (incl. surcharge)
David Smith
1906 - 1965
90-12-57. 1957.
Mixed media. Egg tempera, diluted with alcohol and turpentine.
Monogrammed and inscribed in the lower center. With the estate stamp and a handwritten inscription on the reverse. On laid paper. 45.5 x 58 cm (17.9 x 22.8 in), size of sheete. [EH].
• David Smith combines form and movement in lyrically expressive abstraction.
• His sculptural oeuvre is closely linked to his paintings.
• In the year his work was created, the Museum of Modern Art in New York honored him with a solo exhibition.
• Participant in the XXIX Venice Biennale (1958) and documenta II, III, 4, and 6 (1959, 1964, 1968, and 1977).
• Comparable works can be found in the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, while his sculptures are on display in the world's most important museums.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, northern Germany.
From a southern German collection.
EXHIBITION: David Smith. Zeichnungen, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart / Nationalgalerie Berlin / Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, 1976, cat. no. 33.
Quoted from the website of the Whitney Museum of American Art/David Smith
1906 - 1965
90-12-57. 1957.
Mixed media. Egg tempera, diluted with alcohol and turpentine.
Monogrammed and inscribed in the lower center. With the estate stamp and a handwritten inscription on the reverse. On laid paper. 45.5 x 58 cm (17.9 x 22.8 in), size of sheete. [EH].
• David Smith combines form and movement in lyrically expressive abstraction.
• His sculptural oeuvre is closely linked to his paintings.
• In the year his work was created, the Museum of Modern Art in New York honored him with a solo exhibition.
• Participant in the XXIX Venice Biennale (1958) and documenta II, III, 4, and 6 (1959, 1964, 1968, and 1977).
• Comparable works can be found in the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, while his sculptures are on display in the world's most important museums.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, northern Germany.
From a southern German collection.
EXHIBITION: David Smith. Zeichnungen, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart / Nationalgalerie Berlin / Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, 1976, cat. no. 33.
Quoted from the website of the Whitney Museum of American Art/David Smith
280
David Smith
90-12-57, 1957.
Mixed media. Egg tempera, diluted with alcohol ...
Estimate:
€ 15,000 / $ 17,400 Sold:
€ 23,220 / $ 26,935 (incl. surcharge)
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