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Property from the Irma and Norman Braman Art Foundation

David Smith

Hi Candida

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Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Irma and Norman Braman Art Foundation

David Smith

(1906 - 1965)


Hi Candida

inscribed with the signature David Smith, dated 1-22-1961 and inscribed -Hi Candida (on the base)

painted steel

66 ⅞ by 49 ¾ by 19 in.   169.9 by 126.4 by 48.3 cm.

Executed in 1961.

Estate of the artist

Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York

Jeff Frederic Byers III, New York (acquired by 1973)

Acquavella Galleries, New York (acquired from the above in June 1975)

Willard W. and Carey C. Shuart, Houston (acquired from the above circa 1975)

Acquired from the above in May 1987 by the present owner

Hilton Kramer, "Rzezbiarstwo Davida Smitha [David Smith Sculpture]," Ameryka, no. 42, 1960, p. 46, illustrated

Frank O'Hara, "David Smith: The Color of Steel," ARTnews, vol. 60, no. 8, December 1961, p. 33, illustrated (in installation, Bolton Landing)

Gillo Dorfles, "David Smith: A Lesson in Modernity," Metro, no. 4/5, Milan, 1961, no. 11, pp. 15, 18-19, illustrated (in installation, Bolton Landing)

Ulrich Gertz, Plastik der Genenwart, Berlin, 1964, p. 221, illustrated (in installation, Bolton Landing)

Exh. Cat., Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University and Washington Gallery of Modern Art, David Smith 1906-1965: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1966-67, no. 414, p. 31, illustrated (in installation, Bolton Landing); p. 78

Rosalind E., Krauss, Terminal Iron Works: The Sculpture of David Smith, Cambridge, 1971, fig. 75, p. 97, illustrated (in installation, Bolton Landing)

Garnett McCoy, ed., David Smith, New York, 1973, pl. I, p. 33, illustrated in color (in installation, Bolton Landing)

Noel Frackman, "Arts Reviews," Arts Magazine, November 1975, p. 15

Frank O'Hara, "David Smith: The Color of Steel: Three Exhibitions Are Not Enough to Show All the Current Work by the Dean of American Sculptors Working in Metal," reproduced in: Barbaralee Diamonstein, ed., The Art World: A Seventy-Five-Year Treasury of ARTnews, New York, 1977, p. 310, illustrated (in installation, Bolton Landing; titled Hicandida)

Rosalind E. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1977, no. 515, p. 94 (text), n.p., fig. 515, illustrated (titled Hicandida)

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, David Smith: Seven Major Themes, 1982-83, fig. 27, p. 55, illustrated (in installation, Bolton Landing); p. 230 (titled Hicandida)

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Texas, San Antonio Museum of Art, David Smith: Painter, Sculptor, Draftsman, 1982-83, p. 17 (titled Hicandida)

Karen Wilkin, David Smith, New York, 1984, p. 61 (text) (titled Hicandida)

Exh. Cat., Dallas, Nasher Sculpture Center, David Smith: Drawing and Sculpting, 2005, p. 149, illustrated in color (in installation, Bolton Landing)

Exh. Cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, David Smith: A Centennial, 2006-07, p. 85; p. 448, illustrated in color (in installation, Bolton Landing) (New York); pp. 189 and 191, illustrated (in installation, Bolton Landing)

Exh. Cat., Zurich, Galerie Gmurzynska and Germany, Duisburg, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, David Smith, Working Surface: Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, 1932-63, 2008-10, p. 35, illustrated in color (in installation, Bolton Landing)

Sarah Hamill, David Smith: Works, Writings and Interview, Barcelona, 2011, p. 131, illustrated in color (in installation, Bolton Landing)

Exh. Cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; and Ohio, Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts, David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy, 2011-12, fig. 9, p. 102 (text), pp. 103 and 161, illustrated (in Bolton Landing workshop)

Joan Pachner, David Smith, New York, 2013, fig. 116, p. 141, illustrated in color (in installation, Bolton Landing, 1961)

Sarah Hamill, David Smith in Two Dimensions: Photography and the Matter of Sculpture, Oakland, 2015, pl. 37, p. 127, illustrated in color (in installation, Bolton Landing)

Christopher Lyon, ed., David Smith Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932-1965, Volume Three, 1954-1965, New Haven, 2021, no. 584, p. 232, illustrated in color; p. 233

New York, Otto Gerson Gallery, David Smith: Recent Sculpture, 1961, no. 10, illustrated (titled Hicandida)

New York, Grippi Gallery, Selected Contemporary Sculpture, 1962

New York, Marlborough Gallery, Masters of the 20th Century, 1971, no. 79, p. 146, illustrated

Seattle Art Museum, American Art: Third Quarter Century, 1973, no. 63, p. 20, illustrated; and pp. 21, 101

New York, Acquavella Galleries, Group Show, 1975

Gainesville, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Contesting Terrain, 2015-16