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Tony Smith

Untitled (Atlanta)

Auction Closed

November 16, 11:16 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Tony Smith

1912 - 1980


Untitled (Atlanta)

patinated bronze

47 by 31 by 24 in.

119.4 by 78.7 by 61 cm.

Executed in 1980, this work is number 1 from an edition of 6 plus 1 artist's proof. 

Pace Gallery, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1984)
Christie's New York, 27 September 2018, lot 228 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner 
Debbie Well, "Lack of sculpture is a monumental headache for library," Atlanta Constitution, 2 August 1981, no. 1, 12, illustrated 
"Album: Tony Smith," arts Magazine, October 1983, p. 29, illustrated
John Russell, "Tony Smith," The New York Times, 7 October 1983, c. 29
Garth Henry Claassen, Tony Smith's Sculpture: Five Morphological Paradigms, Indiana, 1991no. 43-44, pp. 201, 247-250, 252 and 296, illustrated 
Joseph Masheck, "Crystalline Form, Worringer, and the Minimalism of Tony Smith," Building-Art: Modern Architecture Under Cultural Construction, New York, 1993, no. 20, pp. 159-160, illustrated
Richard Kalina, "Building Form," Art in America, no. 3, March 1999, p. 79
New York, Pace Gallery, Tony Smith: Paintings and Sculpture, September - October 1983, p. 31, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Tony Smith: Ten Elements, March 1991 (another example exhibited)
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Tony Smith: Architect, Painter, Sculptor, July - September 1998, no. 133, p. 181, illustrated (another example exhibited)