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The Art of Giving: Property from the Collection of Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Sold for Charitable Purposes Supporting the Arts, Music and Medical Research

Tony Smith

Throne

Auction Closed

May 19, 10:59 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Art of Giving: Property from the Collection of Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Sold for Charitable Purposes Supporting the Arts, Music and Medical Research

Tony Smith

1912 - 1980


Throne

steel with oiled finish

29 by 39¾ by 32½ in.

73.7 by 101 by 82.6 cm.

Conceived in 1956 and executed in 1969, this work is the artist's proof from an edition of 6 plus 1 artist's proof.

Samuel Wagstaff Jr., New York (acquired as a gift from the artist in 1969)
Robert Mapplethorpe, New York (acquired from the above in 1987)
Christie's, New York, 7 November 1989, lot 73 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Private Collection 
Christie's, New York, 9 November 1993, lot 19
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Scott Burton, "Old Master at the New Frontier," Art News, vol. 65, no. 8, December 1966, p. 54
Samuel Wagstaff Jr., "Talking with Tony Smith," Artforum, vol. 5, no. 4, December 1966, p. 17, illustrated
Lucy Lippard, "Tony Smith: The Ineluctable Modality of the Visible," Art International, vol. 11, no. 6, Summer 1967, p. 24
Lucy Lippard, Tony Smith, London, 1972, p. 8, illustrated
Allen Ellenzweig, "Tony Smith," Arts, vol. 50, no. 9, May 1976, p. 25
Marsha Miro, "20th Century Master of 3-D Form," Detroit Free Press, 6 March 1977, p. 12-C, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Madrid, Torre Picasso (and traveling), Tony Smith: For..., 1992, n.p.
Jean-Pierre Criqui, "T. Smith: Dédale, Architecte et Sculpteur," L'Architecture d'aujourd'hui, vol. 286, April 1993, pp. 43, 46
Joan Pachner, "Tony Smith," Galerie Magazine, vol. 54, April - May 1993, p. 109
Kenneth Baker, "Making More Out of Minimalism," San Francisco Chronicle, 31 July 1999, p. C1, illustrated in color
"Smog: A New Sculpture for Middlebury," The Eagle, 14 September 2000, p. 3
"El padre del 'minimal' llega al IVAM," Levante, 15 March 2002
Robert C. Morgan, "In the Ether of Solids: Tony Smith," Sculpture, vol. 20, no. 10, December 2002, p. 46
Craig Buckley, "A Definite and Persistent Monster: Tony Smith's Urban Vision," Domain: Perspecta, The Yale Architectural Journal, vol. 44, 2001, p. 83
Exh. Cat., New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Jackson Pollock and Tony Smith Sculpture: An Exhibition on the Centennial of their Births, 2012, p. 29
John Pyper, "Tony Smith's Amaryllis Reinstalled in Hartford," Big Red and Shiny, 26 November 2012, n.p.
Philip Gefter, Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe, New York, 2015, pp. 98, 170, 175, 378, 384 
New York, Fourcade, Droll Inc., Tony Smith: Castings of Models and Small Pieces, March - April 1976 (present example)
Birmingham, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Tony Smith: Painting and Sculpture, February - March 1977 (present example)
New York, Xavier Fourcade Inc., Works on Paper, Small Format Objects: Duchamp to Heizer, February - March 1977 (another example exhibited)
New York, Xavier Fourcade Inc., Large Scale, Small Scale: Sculpture, April - June 1978 (another example exhibited)
New York, Xavier Fourcade Inc., Sculpture, July - September 1982 (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Margo Leavin Gallery, American Sculpture, July - September 1984 (another example exhibited)
New York, Xavier Fourcade Inc., Tony Smith, Selected Sculptures: 1961-1973, Part I, October - November 1985, n.p., illustrated (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Margo Leavin Gallery, Sculpture of the 60s, July - August 1987 (another example exhibited)
New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Willy, April - May 1993 (another example exhibited)
Seoul, Kukje Gallery, Tony Smith, September - October 1997 (another example exhibited)
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Tony Smith: Architect, Painter, Sculptor, July - September 1998, pp. 25, 30, 128, 142, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, Line, Color, Form, July - September 1999 (another example exhibited)
Valencia, Institut Valencià D'Art Modern, Tony Smith, March - May 2002, p. 153, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Tony Smith, September - October 2002 (another example exhibited)
New York, Hunter College, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Tracing Tony Smith's Tau, September - December 2004, no. 12, pp. 11, 19, 21, 29 and 50, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Kunsthalle Bielefeld; Kunstaus Liechtenstein; Toulouse, Musée Les Abattoirs, Kiki Smith, Seton Smith, Tony Smith, September 2012 - September 2013, pp. 82, 86, 94, illustrated in color (Bielefeld), pp. 19-20 (Liechtenstein) (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Tony Smith: Smoke, February - July 2017 (another example exhibited)