Lot 311
  • 311

Tony Smith

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Tony Smith
  • Dial
  • signed twice with the artist's initials, dated twice 68 and numbered twice 1/6 (once inverted)
  • bronze with black patina
  • 15 by 14 by 14 in. 38.1 by 35.6 by 35.6 cm.

Provenance

Francesco Pellizzi, New York
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1987)
Mitchell Innes and Nash, New York
Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles
Private Collection, Los Angeles

Exhibited

New York, Hirschl & Adler Modern, Tony Smith/Christopher Wilmarth, Apprentice, Mentor, Friends, 1997-98
Los Angeles, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Tony Smith, 2002

Literature

Exh. Cat., New York, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., Tony Smith: Recent Sculpture, New York, 1971
Lucy R. Lippard, “Tony Smith: Talk About Sculpture,” ArtNews, April 1971, pp. 48-49, 68 and 71-72
Lucy R. Lippard, Tony Smith, New York, 1972, p. 60, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. There are scattered spot accretions and light wear to the edges. There is evidence of faint pitting to the top. *Please note the auction begins at 9:30 am on November 14th.*
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