David Smith (1906–1965)

DAVID SMITH (1906–1965)
Abstraction with Arrow (Vertical Construction), 1938
Steel, 12 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 4 in.
Dated (on geometric element): 1938

RECORDED: Rosalind E. Krauss, The Sculpture of David Smith: A Catalogue Raisonné (New York: Garland Publishing, 1977), pp. 14 no. 90 as “Vertical Construction,” 38 no. 197, fig. 197, as “Untitled Construction (Abstraction with Arrow)” // Christopher Lyon, ed., David Smith Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1932–1965; Volume Two, 1932–1953, (New York: The Estate of David Smith, 2021), p. 100 no. 99 illus. in color

EXHIBITED: Queens Museum, Queens, New York, March 12–May 8, 1977, American Sculpture: Folk & Modern, no. 82, as “Untitled”

EX COLL.: the artist; to Edgar and Lucille Corcos Levy, New York, 1945, by gift; to David C. Levy, New York, by descent; Joel Corcos Levy, New York, by descent; to sale, Sotheby’s, New York, May 27, 1976, 3882, lot 321; private collection, New York, until the present