Tony Smith - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Tuesday, May 10, 2016 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1999

  • Exhibited

    Birmingham, Susanne Hillberry Gallery, Tony Smith, 1987 (another example exhibited)
    New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Tony Smith, Architect - Painter - Sculptor, July 2 - September 22, 1998, p. 137 (another example exhibited)
    San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, Line, Color, Form, July - August, 1999 (another example exhibited)
    New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Tony Smith: Paintings and Sculpture 1960-65, April 26 - June 3, 2001, p. 35 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    Valence, Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Tony Smith, March - May, 2002 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    London, Timothy Taylor Gallery, Tony Smith, September 3 - October 4, 2002 (another example exhibited)
    Zurich, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Tony Smith, August 23 - October 11, 2003 (another example exhibited)

  • Literature

    Howard Halle, "The Shape of Things to Come", Time Out New York, August 1998, p. 56 (another example)

186

Mistake

1963-1998
cast bronze with black patina
12 x 12 x 8 in. (30.5 x 30.5 x 20.3 cm)
Incised with the artist’s name, numbered, dated, and bearing the seal of the founder “T. Smith 1963/98 2/9” along the bottom edge.
This work is number 2 from an edition of 9.

Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000 

Sold for $47,500

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

New York Auction 10 May 2016