Contemporary Art | New York
Contemporary Art | New York
Property from an Important Pennsylvania Collection
DAVID SMITH | UNTITLED
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July 17, 04:23 PM GMT
Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 USD
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Property from an Important Pennsylvania Collection
DAVID SMITH
1906 - 1965
UNTITLED
estate stamp on the reverse
spray paint on paper
17½ by 11½ in. (44.5 by 29.2 cm.)
Executed in 1959-60.
Makler Gallery, Philadelphia
Acquired from the above by the present owner in November 1979
“It was the soar of the human figure that held him, the uncompromising thrust it makes, the fight it carries on with the force of gravity... If this is geometry here, it is geometry that writhes and squirms.”
(Clement Greenberg, The Collected Essays and Criticism, vol. IV, Chicago 1993, pp. 227-98, as quoted in Alex Potts, “Personages: Imperfect and Persistent”, David Smith: Personage, p. 7)