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DAVID SMITH (1906-1965)
Albany VIII
incised with the artist's signature and date 'David Smith Jan. 2 '60' (below center)
painted steel
26 1/2 x 16 5/8 x 11 3/4 in. (67.3 x 42.2 x 29.8 cm.)
Executed in 1960.
Provenance
Estate of the artist, New York
Marlborough Gallery, New York
Dr. Robert and Helen Mandelbaum, New York
Their sale; Christie's, New York, 12 November 2014, lot 70
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
R. M. Coates, “The Art Galleries: A Sculptor and Two Painters,” The New Yorker, 5 March 1960, pp. 128 and 130.
S. Preston, “Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: New York,” Burlington Magazine, v. 102, May 1960, p. 227, no. 53 (illustrated).
Jane Harrison Cone, ed., David Smith 1906-1965. A Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat., Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 1966, no. 367.
R. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith A Catalogue Raisonné, New York and London, 1977, p. 88, no. 480 (illustrated).
David Smith et al., 'From the Life of the Artist: A Documentary View of David Smith', Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1982, p. 48, no. 54 (illustrated).
C. Lyon, Susan J. Cooke, eds., David Smith Sculpture. A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932-1965, Vol. 1, Essays, Chronology, References, New Haven, 2021, pp. 200-201 (illustrated).
C. Lyon, Susan J. Cooke, eds., David Smith Sculpture. A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932-1965, Vol. 3, 1954-1965, New Haven, 2021, pp. 194 and 363, no. 548 (K480) (illustrated).
G. McCoy, From the Life of the Artist: A Documentary View of David Smith An Exhibition Drawn from the David Smith Papers. Washington, D.C., Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1982, pp. 47 and 55 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, French & Company, Inc., Sculpture by David Smith February-March 1960, n.p. (illustrated).
Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller; London, Tate Gallery; Kunsthalle Basel; Nuremberg, Stadische Kunstsammlung; Kunsthalle Nürnberg and Duisburg, The Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, David Smith 1906-1965, May 1966-May 1967, p. 12, no. 23 (illustrated).
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; The Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery, David Smith March-November 1969.
South Hadley, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Collective Pursuits: Mount Holyoke Investigates Modernism, April-May 1993, p. 80 (illustrated).