Post War & Contemporary Art 
10 November 2021
Post War & Contemporary Art 
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David Smith 1906–1965

Untitled

1955
egg ink and gouache on paper 17⅜ h × 22⅜ w in (44 × 57 cm)
estimate: $20,000–30,000
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Signed, dated and numbered to lower left ‘DS 2/11/55 3’. Estate stamp to verso.
provenance: Estate of the Artist | Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles | Christie's, New York, Post-War and Contemporary Art, 26 September 2002, Lot 703 | Private Collection | Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles | Acquired from the previous, Private Collection | Bonham's, New York, Post War and Contemporary Art, 1 July 2020, Lot 24 | Private Collection
exhibited: David Smith: Works on Paper, 6 January - 10 February 1990, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
literature: David Smith: Works on Paper, Margo Leavin Gallery exhibition catalog, unpaginated Poetics of Reverie: David Smith drawings at Margo Leavin Gallery, Artweek, 25 January 1990, O'Brien, pg. 10

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Art has its tradition, but it is a visual heritage. Art is made from dreams, and visions, and things not known, and least of all from things that can be said. It comes from the inside of who you are when you face yourself. It is an inner declaration of purpose.

David Smith

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